A Rainy Afternoon at the Willow Road Dam

At a little after noon I embarked around the shoreline of the 

Skokie Lagoons at the Willow Road Dam right after the end of a 

violent thunderstorm, and as I trekked through the mud birds (the

 primary purpose for my expedition) were congregating in the 

tops of trees in expectation of the continuing of the storm and 

lightning flashed ominously across the water. The rain swept away 

the nuisance of spiders, but every step I took near a bush 

prompted an ambush of mosquitoes. The positive side to all of 

this was the presence of waterbirds (ducks, a heron, cormorants, 

geese, and killdeers) and dragonflies.

Winnetka

Taken in July 2012