Saturday April 23: joint Earth Day cleanup with Chicago Ornithological Society — Rainbow Beach Dunes

Piping plovers at Montrose Beach, (c) Chicago Tribune Join RBD volunteers as we unite with the COS to make our beach habitat attractive to the piping plover! In 2019, two of these amazing endangered birds (Monty and Rose) nested at Montrose Beach Dunes for the first time. We hope that they or their offspring will […]Saturday …

Swift diary- a brief summary of the 2021 swift season — Jonathan Pomroy

The swift season started with a later than average arrival of last year’s breeding birds; that said our existing  breeding pair really didn’t waste much time in laying eggs and they fledged young earlier than in 2019/20. There are many highlights each season, but perhaps the overall impression this year is of an uninterrupted performance […]Swift …

Bee and Milkweed — Mike Powell

I was hoping to find a Monarch butterfly when I checked out some patches of milkweed last week at Jackson Miles Abbott Wetland Refuge, but ended up instead with some action shots of an Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica). The bee was quite distracted while feeding, so I was able to get really close to […]Bee …