Waukegan Beach
Piping plover is the only federally endangered bird for which critical habitat has been designated in the Chicago region. That habitat is the open beach areas from Waukegan north to the Wisconsin line. A hundred years ago a number of plover nested on these sandy areas as well as those of northwest Indiana. Here is [...]
Amar Ayyash, Tim Wallace, Carolyn Fields, and Sulli Gibson.
The outing of July 28 was really spawned by a desire to see some friends I had not birded with all summer: Carolyn Fields (whose gorgeous photographs have greatly enhanced this blog), Tim Wallace (ditto), Amar Ayyash (a mathematician living in “far away” Will County), and Sullie [...]