Jessa and I went to Schwer Park in Papillion yesterday, I to fish and she to photograph Baltimore orioles. The fishing was steady—lots of potato-chip bluegills eager for drowned ants and the occasional beetle.
The orioles, however, while definitely present, were less obliging than we had hoped, and Jessa ended up with only one photo.
She did document other icterids at the park, including brown-headed buffalo birds...
...and red-winged blackbirds...
...but her most dramatic shots were of common grackles in enraged but futile pursuit of a red-tailed hawk that had made off with one of their own.
The redtail's departure was presumably welcomed by more typical prey, including this fox squirrel and several baby cottontails.