On Saturday August 29th Western Prairie Audubon is leading a Field Trip to Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserves. Meet up at 8am in Macomb (at the WIUM parking lot west of Godfather’s Pizza) to share rides. We’ll plan to have lunch after visiting the first 2 sites. Pioneer cemeteries established by the early settlers in [...]
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 [...]
We will meet at 8:30am at the Moorehouse residence in Warsaw. Directions: On Rt. 136 West in Hamilton take a left at the first stop light onto Rt. 96. At stop sign continue straight towards Warsaw. Approximately ¼ miles past the first 45mph speed limit sign take a right on Grunt Street. The gravel road [...]
The 4th of July butterfly count program has been held annually since 1975, when only 29 counts were held. Volunteers around North American select a count area with a 15-mile diameter and conduct a 1-day census of all butterflies observed within the circle. The counts are usually held in the few weeks before [...]
On March 14 (Saturday morning) - Field Trip to Illinois River (Anderson Lake, Chautauqua Refuge, Spring Lake, maybe Sand Ridge State Forest etc.). We are planning to head east to view late winter birds and early migrating waterbirds on the Illinois River backwaters. We plan to break for lunch at Havana or another location. We [...]
This year’s Bald Eagle Appreciation Days in Keokuk, Iowa will be held on the weekend of January 17-18. This annual event offers the public a close-up view of Bald Eagles foraging at the Keokuk Lock and Dam. The Keosippi Mall also hosts government conservation agencies (Iowa DNR, Lee County Conservation Board, Illinois DNR, Army Corps [...]
November 1st – “Birding the Illinois” For our November field trip we plan to view migratory waterfowl and other water birds at Chautauqua Refuge and other wetlands along the Illinois River. Each fall thousands of waterfowl spend several weeks within the middle section of the Illinois River to feed in waters rich in plant [...]