Notes come from throughout Chicago open air.
WILD OF THE WEEK
Gladys Beber despatched the picture on the best that her spouse’s father Carlos Beber took, whilst parked on the Sam’s Club in Des Plaines, of a hawk. Chicago Audubon Society’s Alan Anderson thinks this is a juvenile red-tailed hawk.
WOTW, the birthday celebration of untamed tales and pictures round Chicago open air, runs maximum weeks within the particular two-page open air phase within the Sun-Times Sports Saturday. Submit nominations by means of message on Facebook (Dale Bowman), on Twitter (@BowmanOutdoor) and Instagram (@BowmanOutdoor) or electronic mail (BowmanOutdoor@gmail.com).
WILD TIMES
DUCKS UNLIMITED
Wednesday, June 17: Illinois DU Virtual Event-Live Auction and Drawing, Zoom 7-Nine p.m.
FISH GATHERING
Tuesday, June 16: Zoom assembly with Mark O’Neill on electronics and construction, Riverside Fishing Club, 6:45 p.m., RiversideFishingClub.com
ILLINOIS PERMITS/SEASONS
Today, June 15: Frog season opens
Tuesday, June 16: Perch fishing reopens on Lake Michigan
Through June 30: Second lottery, Illinois firearm/muzzleloader deer allow packages
HALL OF FAME
July 8: Deadline to put up nominations for the 2020 magnificence of the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame, name (217) 785-2003 or move to ilconservation.org.
DALE’S MAILBAG
Becky and Jim Ejupi photographed those European goldfinches in Lake Zurich.Provided by means of Al Silcroft, taken by means of Becky and Jim Ejupi
“Aside from my fishing habit, I am also an avid bird watcher. Some friends of ours—Becky and Jim [Ejupi] from Lake Zurich—have a pair of these regularly visiting their feeder. After some research, I figured out that they are European finches.” Al Silcroft
A: In an Illinois Audubon Society weblog, Bob Andrini incorporated this, “In 2003 the first sightings of these birds started appearing in Illinois. The best guess was that they were released caged birds. Since that time, they have set up breeding populations in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.”
BIG NUMBER
1,402 kilos, 2 oz: All-tackle international file for blue marlin (Atlantic), in line with the International Game Fish Association, stuck Feb. 29, 1992, by means of Paulo Amorim at Vitoria, Brazil. Michael Jordan’s “Catch 23” team weighed a 442.3-pound blue marlin ultimate week. Click right here for extra main points.
LAST WORD
“I’m a gardener in old tree-d Park Ridge. Weeks ago first noticed the holes in the ground. [The periodical cicadas] really are everywhere!”
Barbara Van Diggelen, at the scope of the emergence
Barbara Van Diggelen took this cicada picture in Park Ridge.Provided