The 22nd Annual Gull Frolic took place on Saturday, February 17, 2024. It began at the reasonable hour of 9:30 AM which was good for me as it takes me an hour and a half to get to Winthrop Harbor...
Last Saturday morning, I led the first of two Unity Temple Auction bird walks at the Chicago Portage. After the group left, I stayed and found more birds with Bob Smith. I went back again the nex...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2023/05/19/the-birds-are-back-2-a-weekend-birding-the-chicago-portage/
There has been an abundance of Northern Flickers – also known as “Golden-shafted” – just about everywhere I have been lately. I often wind up struggling to get one or two decent photograp...
I walked around the Chicago Portage on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Against a quiet backdrop of very little activity, a few different species emerged. I stayed home yesterday in part due to a t...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2023/04/01/back-at-the-chicago-portage/
The weather wasn’t too bad for mid-February. The sun was shining and although it’s always colder by the lake, the wind chill wasn’t prohibitive. Indeed, it was quite easy to spend more time...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2023/02/26/a-rather-gull-less-frolic/
I woke up yesterday morning to no internet connection. After spending an hour or so on the phone with my service provider it was determined that I need a new gateway router. It was shipped this m...
I am back from the land of afternoon naps with a short segment. We’ve had two Saturday morning walks at Thatcher Woods in River Forest, and we will have our final fall migration walk there on O...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2022/09/30/fall-walks-at-thatcher-woods/
On Tuesday morning, I made it up to the Hebron Trail in a little over an hour and a half. I didn’t leave quite as early as planned; I woke up to some sort of a circuit-breaker issue in the … ...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2022/07/28/the-other-goose-lake-and-beyond/
I began writing this post while I was sitting here with the sun pouring through the half-closed slats of the blinds, the curse of facing east in the morning, artificially cooled by the fans and a...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2022/07/20/summer-surprises-at-the-chicago-portage/
Even if the temperature doesn’t seem springlike lately, the trees are starting to leaf out, the birds are returning, and there is every other indication that spring is here. And now that the Sp...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2022/05/03/spring-migration-continues/