Spring Bird Migration 2025 – Cook County

For local birding friends: On the Friday night/Saturday morning preceding our Saturday 4/26 Migration Bird Walk Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s BirdCast service (https://dashboard.birdcast.info) recorded a total of 100 birds flying over Cook County, Illinois, where I live. Despite that low total, we had a very good birding day at a Continue Reading

Voting for Judges – Illinois Cook County Primary March 19, 2024

It’s that time again in Illinois. We have a primary election on March 19. Some readers might not know much – or anything – about how we vote for judges in Illinois or, particularly, in Cook County.  Whenever a primary or general election includes judicial candidates, I normally talk about Continue Reading