Every Thursday morning in May at we'll look for spring migrants in the woods.  Meet at the corner of Ewing and Grant at 7:30.

Leaders: John Bates and sometimes Josh Engel

These trips pack a great list of warbler species during spring migration.

Meet at 7:30 a.m. at Erickson Woods Forest Preserve parking lot. Turn north into parking lot from Willow Road, just east of the Eden’s Expressway.

Leaders: Ed and Rebecca Rice

 These trips pack a great list of warbler species during spring migration.

Meet at 7:30 a.m. at Erickson Woods Forest Preserve parking lot. Turn north into parking lot from Willow Road, just east of the Eden’s Expressway.

Leaders: Ed and Rebecca Rice

 Look for warblers and other migrating species in this diverse habitat of restored woodland with numerous wetlands scattered throughout.  

Meet at 8:00 a.m. in the second parking lot that leads to the Interpretive Center.

Leader: Nancy Halliday

We will look for spring warblers and other migrants, local raptors, etc.. along the trails of this nearly 22-acre restored woodlands, wetlands and pond.
Meet at 7:30 A.M. at the park entrance at 5801 N. Western Ave, just across from where Ardmore dead-ends into Western Ave. from the west. Free street parking on both sides of Western Avenue.
Leader: Scott Judd

Every Thursday morning in May at we'll look for spring migrants in the woods.  Meet at the corner of Ewing and Grant at 7:30.

Leaders: John Bates and sometimes Josh Engel

Sean Menke, Professor & Chair of Biology at Lake Forest College, along with his colleagues. took advantage of the cicada event in 2024 to learn more about ecosystems.  In nature, populations of plants and animals occasionally explode in numbers, providing a temporary surplus of nutritious food for consumers. When these nutritional ‘pulses’ occur, they can initiate chain reactions in food webs, as consumers switch from their normal diets to feast instead on the abundant new food items. Understanding the consequences of these food pulses for natural communities – which organisms are affected, for how long, and if they stop performing their normal “jobs” to take advantage of the new resource – can provide insights into how ecological systems function and respond to change. My colleagues and I studied the synchronized emergence of billions of Brood XIII periodical cicadas in Chicagoland this past summer. This was an enormous pulse of insect food for birds and ants, one of the most abundant and important group of organisms on the planet. Come find out what we learned, and still hope to find out!

In person at Robert Crown Community Center, 1801 Main Street, Evanston.  Plenty of parking in the well-lit parking area.730 pm.