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Chicago rabbit in my backyard.
I live in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. It is urban, crowded and overpopulated, but we get our share of wild critters: both resident and visiting rabbits, squirrels (mostly grey but a few reds), raccoons, opossums, groundhogs, foxes, coyotes, and an occasional deer. I used to see them after dark, taking my dog for her last walk of the day. She died three years ago and I'm too old to start another dog, so nowadays all I see are rabbits.
We have all of your wild birds and more, because Chicago is a migration route and the trees and ponds in our large cemeteries and forest preserve parks draw everything in for a pit stop. I've seen trumpeter swans and great blue herons. A pair of Cooper's Hawks nested near our house for two years. They ate all the pigeons and most of the squirrels, but it looks like that wasn't enough for them and they moved on.
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This is Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Square, Chicago. Unlike most Lincoln statues, this one is beardless because Abe was beardless the last time he was in the neighborhood, in November 1860.