At first I thought this was a baby rabbit, but it turned out to be a hispid cotton rat busy eating some food a park visitor left for the birds. I rarely see this species since it is normally nocturnal, or dashing into cover as soon as they see me.
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Finally I found a migrating male blue-winged teal that let me photograph him from fairly close range.
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Happily the sun found a hole in the clouds that made the sky to the west light up....
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Some nice crepuscular rays on a day with unsettled atmospheric conditions....
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Given the ID I got from iNaturalist, I'm pretty sure this is a domestic species, but one large bush of it blooms in the park every year, so I'm going to add it as a new species for my prairie wildflowers species set. There is a native viburnum species called the southern black haw, which looks like this: kswildflower.org/largePhotos.php?imageID=7615&aCatego...
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