Yellow Prairie Flowers with a Bumble Bee.

White-tailed Deer eating along the edge of the trail, close to the ranger station.

A young Red-tailed Hawk soared over Cooper Park in East Peoria, Illinois.

Red-tailed Hawk landing briefly in a tree.

Red-tailed Hawk being chased out of the tree by blackbirds and swallows.

Red-tailed Hawk on the wing.

Bumble Bee.

Juvenile American Robin.

Marsh Flowers.

Song Sparrow.

Black-capped Chickadee hanging from a willow branch.

Black-capped Chickadee cleaning bugs off the willow leaves.

Red-winged Blackbird greeting us on our walk along the boardwalk at Cooper Park on Sunday morning.

Marsh Flowers in the beaver ponds at Cooper Park.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow.

Juvenile Indigo Bunting.

Beaver ponds are full of marsh flowers.

Baltimore Oriole.

Young Bull Frog. He jumped and startled me before posing nicely for a photo.

Painted Turtles on a log.