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Very sad that my first observation of this bird is not alive. Another window casualty. The DePaul building is not quite as lethal as the Clark Park boathouse, but I do usually find at least one dead bird every spring/fall there since I started walking past it in the mornings. Went to be picked up by CBCM with the dead sparrow and the live thrush already posted, and I collected some new lightweight collapsible small cardboard boxes and gloves in the hopes of finding more live rescues in the future. (Though as I’m posting this a massive thunderstorm just broke, so hopefully the birds lay low tonight…)

I found this bee in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and there were many bees that I saw during my hike. I took a picture of this bee pollenating the dandelion, rubbing the pollen on its body and taking it somewhere else. It was yellow and black in color, and about 1 cm big. It has a stinger on its abdomen, and if it flies by your ear you can hear the buzzing sound that its wings make.