BIRDING I thought we could do some birding before we met Josh, so we started the day off at Northerly Island. At the Northerly Island parking lot, we found that Red-winged Blackbirds have come back in numbers and we found a single Brown-headed Cowbird. We looked over Lake Michigan finding […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
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Everyone met at North Point Marina for the 16th annual IOS Gull Frolic. Within the first hour, we found some flying Long-tailed Ducks (the third ILYB field trip in a row to have one), Gadwall, and a few flyover Horned Larks. At 10:30 AM, I went inside to see the […]
After all of the Geese we saw with ILYB on Sunday, we thought we would try to get closer to the flock by going up to Fox River Shores FP. Right as we pulled up to the parking lot, we saw a flock of about thirty Red-winged Blackbirds and as […]
I can take care of myself. I’m an adult. Not just any ordinary adult. I am an adult male Long-Tailed Duck. My grandfather was what you called an “Oldsquaw.” My mother and father told me stories when I was just a hatchling of other beings called Humans. One species of […]