Wildlife Sightings and Rare Bird Behavior

Credit to Vikrant Deshpande

Yesterday in southern Illinois around 2pm a long shadow line moved over our heads and everyone was extremely puzzled as to what it could possibly be. Any ideas?

So we hung this birdhouse thinking it would be cute for a bird to fly in and out through the nose, just like the song, "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose." But an unexpected rat snake moved in...

Video by Naidu Kumpatla

Killdeer laid her eggs next to where I park my car a few weeks ago and it's taken all of my effort not to disturb them every time I come outside! One of the eggs hatched this morning so I put my camer...

oh man…. something I would definitely do. this is the [hotspot](https://ebird.org/hotspot/L749642) I believe. they were probably looking for the white-throated caracara

# [Source: Mohan Thomas](https://x.com/i/status/2052240689333956787)

I am not sure if it is a birch sawfly larva or caterpillar, any ideas? [https://imgur.com/a/xSWEIhF](https://imgur.com/a/xSWEIhF) another picture

Big news for our city!!! It’s a true testament to Chicago Park District’s habitat restoration efforts!

A small brute wyvern that inhabits dense forests. It's leaf-like tail emits a sweet scent that attracts vespoids which get stuck to the tail's sticky underside. When agitated, it extends its spiked de...

Of course, not considering places underwater. I was recently hiking and noticed those small forests suspended hundred of meters, with very closed vegetation, that even people climbing would avoid. At ...

The position of the sun, the plane and myself matched perfectly so that the trail and its shadow aligned.

Stopped for a drink on my run and they followed me, I knew the assignment. Honk!

Four beautiful Killdeer chicks directly in front of where I park my car (Note the cinder block on the right marking the area so I know where to stop lol)

Had they done so during the daytime, they would have spotted the gargantuan finned body of the Spinosaurus sleeping behind the nearby clump of trees.

Photographed on Praslin, Seychelles, last summer. The Seychelles Black Parrot was one of the birds we most wanted to see on the island, but we weren’t sure how difficult it would be to find one. We t...

So my small garden bed has been getting some unwanted diners... i was setting up my new bigger bed and decided to surround it with the cover crop peas I was also planting inside to see if making a buf...

Researchers recently photographed a Rusty-spotted Cat mother with her kitten in the Aravalli hills near Delhi, India. Rusty-spotted Cats are among the smallest wild cats on Earth and are classified a...

The red ones are boys and the lighter/orange colored ones are girls. They make all kinds of sounds/vocalizations, but they are some of the most common ones that you might hear throughout the year. ...

Took this pic of an eastern bluebird and I love how well it blends into the tree. What are the best camouflaged birds?

Managed to snap a few more this morning of the visiting fox