Let's Go Birding Together - Pride Month Walk at Humboldt Park

Let's Go Birding Together - Pride Month Walk at Humboldt Park

Let’s Go Birding Together is Audubon Society’s LGBTQ inclusive bird walk series. COS participated in the Chicago-area walk, hosted at Humboldt Park and co-sponsored by Feminist Bird Club and Audubon Great Lakes on June 22, 2019. Almost 40 people attended on a warm, sunny June morning.

Trip Report: 7th Annual East Tawas Trip - May 2019

Trip Report: 7th Annual East Tawas Trip - May 2019

Each family occupied their own nesting platform/tree, but a marsh as vast as the Tuttle wildlife area apparently wasn’t big enough for the male Osprey. He mounted a concerted, prolonged attack on one of the eagles as it flew over the marsh to its nest. The aerial acrobatics were astonishing, especially the way the eagle could flip over onto its back in the air in an instant to aim its talons at the Osprey.

Trip Report: Paul Douglas Forest Preserve - 2019 June 15

Trip Report: Paul Douglas Forest Preserve - 2019 June 15

Paul Douglas Preserve was created by combining a mixture of farmland and wooded private land which mostly is on higher glacial ridges featuring very mature oak woodlands. This birder group compiled a list of 40 bird species, all summer residents of this beautiful preserve.

Calumet Birders take on the 2019 Spring Bird Count

Calumet Birders take on the 2019 Spring Bird Count

The evening was looming, the birders were tired and the temperature had dropped. I was especially ready to go home and go straight to bed. But you know if you leave too soon, you’re going to miss something, so I waited it out as Walter continued to scope the water from the golf club balcony. Then, all of a sudden, we spotted a large shape in the sky.

Birding With... Tom Lally

Birding With... Tom Lally

Flatwoods flourish in the plains left by retreating glaciers millennia ago. They don’t quite feel like upland or bottomland forests. The trees are not necessarily all coniferous or deciduous or even all native. They are just as their name suggests. Flat. Woods.

“As flat as a pool table,” says Tom Lally of the woodlands.