Notes come from round Chicago outside and past.
WILD OF THE WEEK
Jeff Getz made his common journey to see the sandhill crane migration on the Platte River in central Nebraska on the second strive (the primary was canceled by a blizzard) and had a bonus of seeing his first whooping cranes. “I had learn that whoopers generally cease on the USF&W Rainwater Basin about 40 minutes from Kearney the place I used to be staying,” he emailed. His try to search out them appeared headed to naught earlier than one other watcher helped him. “He stated, `see that tree?, now go to 10:00 after which again towards that grain silo after which proper once more,’ ” Getz emailed. “There they have been, 10 white dots in a sea of grass a few 1/2 mile away.” He despatched great photographs, together with the one on the prime and under, making me resolve once more that’s one in all my subsequent large journeys.
WOTW, the celebration of untamed tales and photographs round Chicago outside, runs most weeks within the particular two-page outside part within the Solar-Instances Sports activities Sunday. To make submissions, e mail BowmanOutside@gmail.com or contact me on Fb (Dale Bowman), Twitter (@BowmanOutside), Instagram (@BowmanOutside). or Bluesky (@Bowmanoutside).
WILD TIMES
FISHERIES WORKSHOP
Thursday, April 10:Illinois Indiana Sea Grant’s Lake Michigan Fisheries Workshop, Wilmette Harbor Membership, 6-8:30 p.m. (digital assembly, April 17)
FISH GATHERINGS
Tuesday, April 8: Chris Riebe from Shawnee Expeditions, Chicagoland Muskie Hunters chapter of Muskies, Inc., North Department Pizza & Burger Co., Glenview, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 8: Annual pizza social gathering and awards night time for prime captains, Salmon Limitless, (one-time web site change), Elk Grove Village VFW, free, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 9: Bailey Bleser, “Smallmouth Bass and the Spring Transition,” Lake Geneva Fishing Membership, Poplar Creek Bowl, Hoffman Estates, 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 10: Jim “The Crappie Professor” Kopjo, “Spring Techniques on Shabbona, Heidecke and Evergreen Lakes” and “Greatest Native Shoreline Areas and Tactical Approaches in Early Spring,” Riverside Fishing Membership, Berwyn Moose Lodge 424, 6:45 p.m.
SCI BANQUET
Saturday, April 12: SCI Illinois & Chicago chapter’s banquet, Medinah Banquets, Addison
DUCKS UNLIMITED
Thursday, April 10: McHenry Fox Flyway Dinner, Vacation Inn, Crystal Lake
ILLINOIS SEASONS
By Sunday, April 6: Second youth spring turkey season
Monday-Friday, April 7-11: First spring turkey season, south zone
Subsequent Saturday, April 12: Second spring turkey season, south, begins
LAUNCH PARTY
April 29: Chicago No Limits Fishing, St. Gregory Auditorium at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church, Chicago, 5:30-8:30 p.m., advised donation $60
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY
Tuesday, April 8: Boat America, Chicago, Protected Boat Staff, jmltek@att.web
Subsequent Sunday, April 13: Boat America, Chicago, Deborah Leja, d.leja.uscgaux@gmail.com
HUNTER SAFETY
April 25 & 27: Peotone, 708-258-3343 or peotoneparkdistrict.comThe full state itemizing is at dnr2.illinois.gov/SafetyEd/SafetyEdClassByCounty
