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A male wood duck is perched high up on a burr oak branch with the female not far from view on this beautiful spring morning at Wildflower Park

The sun began to peek through the clouds with some color showing behind the box elder trees that line Eakin Creek West while noticing this beautiful looking cup plant (silphium perfoliatum) along the trail

The abundance of beautiful wildflowers on this prairie landscape scene were out in force

Excited that this was the shot I was looking for

BOUQUETS FROM THE PRAIRIE Size:5x7 FINE ART PAPER A male wood duck isThe forecast was to be another sunny beautiful day so, I left the house around 4: 30 am and headed to the Burnidge Forest Preserve. The previous days I scouted out a few areas to photograph the wildflowers and the Burnidge Forest Preserve had plenty to photograph so, I made that my priority today. I knew where in the preserve I wanted to go to photograph the wildflowers because, there were an abundance of them. It wasn't long before I reached the area