An Indiana record yellow perch, green herons at Rosehill cemetery and finding morel mushrooms set against a Christopher Morel home run, noted in the Sun-Times used as a time stamp, are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
A photograph of a bird nest made with fishing line and a question on the prospects for smelt fishing are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
A leucistic Canada goose in the Roselle, red fox in Downers Grove and poet Wendell Berry on snow are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Alan Anderson photographing limpkins far from home and Dominic Wroblewski sending artful photographs of observations in his backyard are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.