If You're Ever There...Go Here!

[homoe]

Originally Posted by homoe

IF you're a birder check out The Chicago Audubon and Ornithological societies host free bird walks, Wooded Island Jackson Park, (Saturday mornings) North Park Village Nature Center (Saturdays during migration), or North Pond Nature
Sanctuary (Wednesday mornings).

Don't forget Lincoln Park's Montrose Point bird sanctuary steps from Lake Michigan. A stretch of shrubs, hedges,k and trees attracts millions of birds like the Golden-Crowned Kinglet following the Lake Michigan shore as they migrate between New Orleans and Canada.

From The Nature Conservancy....

For the first time in decades, rare piping plovers mated in Chicago. In 2019, two shorebirds nicknamed Monty and Rose became the first piping plovers to successfully nest in Chicago in more than a half century. Their arrival sparked a flurry of curiosity and concern as thousands followed their efforts to build a family near the dunes of Montrose Beach, a restored natural habitat adjoining one of the Chicago’s most popular beaches.