For our August chapter meeting will be a planning meeting along with a rap-up of this years butterfly and the Spring Bird Count. We will show this years best butterfly pictures that were taken on the butterfly counts including a surprise visitor from the gulf. The meeting as usual will be held at the Community [...]
Once again we’ve planned our annual summer picnic for our May meeting. The picnic will be held on Tuesday evening, May 11th - 6pm at Everly Park in Macomb (across from the State Police Offices and Days Inn) at the shelter near the lake starting at 6pm. Bring a side dish and table settings for [...]
Western Prairie Audubon is presenting a program by Ed and Evelyn Franks entitled “Birding in Costa Rica” at 7pm on February 9th at the Macomb City Hall Community Room. Ed and Eveyln have offered to give a presentation on a birding trip they took to Costa Rica 4 years ago with Elderhostel. Ed and [...]
Our next meeting we will have a talk by Mary where she will describe for us a trip she took to Mexico this past March to view the large gatherings of Monarchs in Mexico preparing for their long migration north into the United States and Canada. This year’s Monarch population has been high compared [...]
Angella Moorehouse will be giving a Grasshopper Workshop 6pm at Lake View Nature Center. Often despised as crop pests, we’re all familiar with the huge numbers of grasshoppers that appear during the late summer. Angella will take us through the basics on how to distinguish grasshoppers from crickets and katydids as well as how to [...]
Our next program will be “Calls of Frogs and Toads” by Dr. Mike Romano on WEDNESDAY April 15th 7pm at the Macomb City Hall Community Room.
As the spring thaw begins tiny shallow water pools will soon be filled with the chirps and croaks of several species of frogs and toads. Often we these frogs and [...]
For our next meeting Dr Brian Peer of WIU will present a talk about his work on Redheaded Woodpeckers in Spring Lake Park. The meeting will start at 7:00pm at the Macomb City Hall Community Room with the talk starting at about 7:20 after a short business meeting and introductions. As always our talks/meeting [...]
At our next meeting we will polish our bird ID skills with a video entitled birds birds birds. The meeting will be held at the community room in Macomb City Hall. Our Meetings begin at 7 pm. As always everyone is welcome to attend.
Our annual meeting for 2009 is January 13th 7pm at the Macomb City Hall Community Room. For this meeting we will be electing officers, board members and our IAS representative. Officers and Board Members serve one year terms, except for IAS Board Representative which serves a 2 year term. If you have any suggestions to [...]
****Update Meeting Moved to Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at:
300 Wigwam Hollow Rd , Macomb, IL 61455 ****
It is located on Wigwam Hollow just down the street from Casey’s on East Jackson.
Western Prairie will present a video program entitled “Birding Australia”. The video filmed by world birder Jan Shaw and personally narrated by [...]