Yellow bill and black eyes. It’s not me glaring at an ancient invoice. It’s a Barred Owl.
Purple Coneflower or Echinacea from the Latin echinus, “hedgehog.”
Butterfly Weed, unlike many of the other milkweed species, doesn’t have milky-sapped stems.
An Eastern Kingbird in front of a green screen that is a pond.
Mallard may mean wild drake or duck and derive from Old French malart or Medieval Latin mallardus or Latin masculus (male), but this is a Mallard hen.