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Spotted on this morning's bird walk by McCormick Place, a tattered Monarch. The trees a flutter with migrating birds. Tempus fugit! The waving prairie, speckled with a few still blooming asters and sculptural drying Rattlesnack Master stalks, hisses soak up these fall days. With a silent swoosh, the young Cooper's Hawk glides through a group of humans standing closely together, all looking intently through their binoculars at a distant tree. Chirping "Which warbler? Is it a...? Wait, could it be a... Where...? Undeterred, and unnoticed, the hawk's attention is fixed on the bird that could be breakfast.
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Posted On: October 6th 2026, 08:24 pm
Spotted on this morning's bird walk by McCormick Place, a tattered Monarch.

The trees a flutter with migrating birds.

Tempus fugit!

The waving prairie, speckled with a few still blooming asters and sculptural drying Rattlesnack Master stalks, hisses soak up these fall days.

With a silent swoosh, the young Cooper's Hawk glides through a group of humans standing closely together, all looking intently through their binoculars at a distant tree. Chirping "Which warbler? Is it a...? Wait, could it be a... Where...?

Undeterred, and unnoticed, the hawk's attention is fixed on the bird that could be breakfast.

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