Straw-colored Fruit Bat

Arctic Fox

More Chicago at Night

I-290 looking north from downtown. The dark area in the foreground is "Hubbard's Cave", with the snarly Ontario feeder just beyond.

Chicago At Night

Looking north from on top of the roof of the Sears Tower

Generations

Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, with his first granddaughter, watching the wolves at Lincoln Park Zoo. June 6, 2005

Filthy, and Lovin' It.

Warthog at Lincoln Park Zoo

Snowy Egret

...a fishes-eye view.

Skywalk

Monteverde, Costa Rica

Rockhopper Penguin Chick

Went out on the AP wire today:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 1, 2008
LINCOLN PARK ZOO, CHICAGO
CONTACT: 312-742-2246

Hello World! A rockhopper penguin chick at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago peaks out of its rocky crevice nesting den for the first time ever on Aug. 1. The chick hatched in early July and its sex is yet unknown.
Rockhopper penguins are one of the more northerly penguin species found on islands near South America, the southern Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand.
As their name implies, rockhopper penguins live and nest on rocky shorelines, and hop from rock to rock. Their populations worldwide have seen a steep decline over the past 30 years. They are listed as vulnerable due to the impact of commercial overfishing, pollution and global warming.

Photo taken August 1 by Greg Neise, Lincoln Park Zoo.

Maritime Grasshopper

Zebras at Play

2 young zebras chase each other at Lincoln Park Zoo

Honey Bee

Monarch Butterfly

Lincoln Park, Chicago

Cooper's Hawk

Hunting young rabbits in Lincoln Park, Chicago.

Chunk-headed Snake

Cahuita, Costa Rica

Solomon Islands Leaf Frog

two-week-old hatchling

Black-crowned Night Heron

South Pond heron colony, Lincoln Park, Chicago

Chilean Flamingo

Picked up by National Geographic News today...

Chicago, Illinois, July 16, 2008—Skinny legs and all, a Chilean flamingo stands guard over two eggs at the Lincoln Park Zoo. This is the first time in the zoo's history that their flamingo flocks have laid eggs. The eggs should hatch in approximately four weeks.

The pale pink, gregarious birds are native to South America, where they live in shallow, salty lakes and feed on invertebrates, seeds, and algae. Human activities such as egg harvesting are the birds' main threats.
—Photograph by Greg Neise/Lincoln Park Zoo

Mount St. Helens

Glass frog

One of the many Hylid frogs from South America called "glass frogs" because of their translucent skin.

Escorpion

Escorpion Bar, Bellavista—a neighborhood of Iquitos, Peru.

Playa Naranjo

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Meerkat Family

Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago.

Amur Leopard

Natural eyeshine color ("redeye") caused by flash. Lincoln Park Zoo.

Sunset on the Tahuayo

Kids Fishing

Quebrada Blanco, Peruvian Amazon.

Tahuayo River

Headed up the Tahuayo, a blackwater tributary of the Amazon.

The Bad Wing

So named because insect collectors have a hard time setting it's wings due to the unique way the moth holds them.

Chicago, IL

The view from up on the roof of the Sears Tower

Monteverde, Costa Rica

Waterfall on the Rio Guacimal

And so it begins...

Welcome to my (hopefully) daily photo blog. I will attempt to post at least one new photo here each day...

...some may be from my archives, and some may have been taken that morning. So here's the first picture, sunset at Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica: