Not Squirrels...

Yes. This bird lives at Notre Dame.

...but birds. While Notre Dame has its fair share of squirrels, it also has a great number of birds. Thanks to St. Mary and St. Joseph's Lakes, Notre Dame has a diverse population of birds from the common to, well, the not so common. Fr. Terry Ehrman, CSC, a botanist and theologian at Notre Dame, not to mention bird lover, captured this beautiful picture of a Great Blue Heron on St. Mary's Lake. On capturing the Great Blue Heron, Fr. Terry said, "At Notre Dame, the lover of birds draws near to the Kingdom of God where "the birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches" (Matt 13:32). Indeed, Fr Terry... indeed!