Eagle, Gulls, and Red-bellied Woodpecker

 

One lone Bald Eagle on the ice on the far side of the Illinois River across from River Beach Drive south of Chillicothe, Illinois.

 

 

 

Gulls on the Illinois River.

 

 

Red-bellied Woodpecker at Poplar Lane. We think a pair are nesting there.

River Beach Drive

 

 

 

Common Mergansers and Goldeneyes mingling with Bufflehead and Gulls off River Beach Drive. One Eagle was out on the ice on the far side of the river.

 

 

 

 

 

Common Merganser.

 

 

Common Mergansers.

Starved Rock Lock & Dam

 

 

 

 

Great Blue Herons roosting in a tree.

 

 

Barge in the lock at Starved Rock L&D.

 

Eagle in tree on Plum Island.

 

Tug Boat leaving the lock.

Snowy Owl in Livingston County

 

 

We went looking for the Snowy Owl that has hanging out in Livingston County for the past several months. We found him as he flew from a fence post far out into a field. She (we think it is a female) stayed there for about 15 minutes, preening, yawning (or calling out, but we didn't hear any thing), and looking all around. Then she flew further out in the field and we could no longer see her in the snow.

 

 

Snowy Owl, yawning or calling? Not sure which because we were too far away to hear.

 

 

She flew farther out in the field and we lost sight of her in the snow.