Highwood/Highland Park, IL–Beautiful days bring out families, dogs, and outdoors lovers to Lake Michigan beaches. Poke in the sand, check out the crawfish that have been washed up, let your dog get a sip of the cold water. Find your own stretch of beach, your own way to relax.
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Highland Park/Highwood, IL–This week’s birdapalooza continues, with red-headed woodpeckers hammering at trees, and hawks swooping and cartwheeling through the air. Makes me want to sing “Free Bird“. The only glitch is that it’s also time for controlled burns in Openlands Lakeshore Preserve and in the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve. Is it really my allergies kicking [...] Birds at Ft. Sheridan. Photo by Laurie Borman Highwood/Highland Park, IL–Bring your binoculars! The birds are back at Ft. Sheridan Forest Preseve in Lake County, IL. Now is the time to see many species. The warm weather brings out red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, robins, crows, of course. But bare trees mean you can also easily see the red-headed [...] Ft. Sheridan Forest Preserve path in winter. Photo by Laurie Borman Trees raise their limbs to the sky. Photo by Laurie Borman Highland Park/Highwood, IL–Fresh snow covers the paths of Ft. Sheridan Nature Preserve in Lake County. Only a few birds pierce the silence. This is the time to trod in snowshoes, down the path to [...] Fall color peaks this week in northern Illinois. Check out scenes of families and photographers enjoying the forest preserves and changing leaves. Highwood, IL-
Highwood/Highland Park/Lake Forest, IL–After exiting the big hawk’s nest, I hear the red-tailed hawk calling, right on cue. It’s easy to spot the dad circling the fields, looking for mice, while mom and chicks perch in the big twig nest. Just follow the chirps and screeching sounds. There are lots of other birds to spy [...] Highwood/Highland Park/Lake Forest, IL–Wildflowers bursting with blooms line the paths of the Ft. Sheridan Forest Preserve. Check out fields of delicate Queen Anne’s Lace, brown-eyed Susans, and beautiful Blue Sailors (wild chicory). Thick, fuzzy bumblebees hum from flower to flower while tiny American goldfinches perch atop the tallest stalks. It’s a riot of color. Someone told [...] Highwood/Highland Park/Lake Forest, IL–The compact size of Ft. Sheridan Forest Preserve makes it easy for families to maneuver. Climb into the giant Red Tailed Hawk’s nest at the north end of the preserve and peer through the binocular eyes for a hawk’s eye view of the ravines. As if on cue, a hawk screeches as [...] |
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