[BCNnet] Chicago Audubon Society Baker's Lake Heronry Program Thursday October 3

[smchecchia at aol.com]

Chicago Audubon  Society invites you to attend a program about the Baker's Lake Heronry -- an Apartment Complex for the Birds!
 
Thursday, October 3       7 p.m.
 
North Park Village Nature Center, Chicago
 
For directions, call the CAS office, 773-539-6793
 
Baker’s Lake Heronry, located in Barrington, Illinois is a tiny island that changed dramatically over the last 40 years—from a lushly vegetated island in the 1980s to artificial nesting structures in 2000 that are home to nesting pairs of great blue herons, great egrets, double crested cormorants, and state endangered black-crowned night herons.  Join Robert Sliwinski, wildlife biologist and designer of the Baker’s Lake Heronry, as he presents how the current heronry was designed and reconstructed and how the birds have been using the nesting opportunities for the last 12 years.  Very few are allowed to visit this island up close and personal.  This program will present close-up photos of all the nesting birds on this remote island getaway—and without all the smell!  Robert Sliwinski is a Chicago Audubon Board member and Senior Environmental Resources Specialist with Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. of Rosemont, Illinois.

Here are links to two Chicago Wilderness Magazine articles about the heronry from 2000, if you want to learn more about its history.  
 
http://www.chicagowildernessmag.org/CW_Archives/issues/spring2000/IWbaker.html
http://www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/fall2000/rookeryrebounds.html
 
Chicago Audubon Society website:  www.chicagoaudubon.org
 
Suzanne Checchia
Evanston, Cook County

















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