Notes come from round Chicago outside and past.
DALE’S MAILBAG
“How frequent are muskrats in the principle department of the chicago river. Nicely, I had a customer right this moment.” Jeffrey Williams messaging earlier this month.
A: Muskrats are frequent across the Chicago River system, notably the branches. Downtown, they’re a rarer sighting.
WILD OF THE WEEK
Nicholas Kriho photographed the lunar eclipse on the south finish of Cemetery Street outdoors the car parking zone of the north aspect of Braidwood Lake. “It was fairly a outstanding occasion to witness, and whereas these images should not by anybody’s requirements technically good, they not less than function reminiscences of that romantic few hours that my spouse and I spent staring on the sky.”
WOTW, the celebration of untamed tales and images round Chicago outside, runs most weeks within the particular two-page outside part within the Solar-Instances Sports activities Sunday. To make submissions, electronic mail BowmanOutside@gmail.com or contact me on Fb (Dale Bowman), Twitter (@BowmanOutside), Instagram (@BowmanOutside). or Bluesky (@Bowmanoutside).
LAST WORD
“They aren’t imposing time restrictions. You’ll be able to’t say it’s OK for them and never for everyone else.”
A lakefront consumer, saying there’s no cause you possibly can’t fish or be on the lakefront in a single day, if the Chicago Park District is just not imposing the time restrictions on the assorted homeless encampments at metropolis parks.
WILD TIMES
HUNTER SAFETY
Subsequent weekend, April 5-6: Beecher, bschunted@gmail.com
April 25 & 27: Peotone, 708-258-3343 or peotoneparkdistrict.com
The complete state itemizing is at dnr2.illinois.gov/SafetyEd/SafetyEdClassByCounty
FISH GATHERING
Thursday, April 3: MEGA RAFFLE NIGHT, Midwest Musky Membership, Village Sportsmen’s Membership, Alsip, 7 p.m., midwestmuskyclub.com
FISHERIES WORKSHOP
April 10: Illinois Indiana Sea Grant’s Lake Michigan Fisheries Workshop, Wilmette Harbor Membership, 6-8:30 p.m. (digital assembly, April 17)
ILLINOIS PERMITS/SEASONS
In the present day, March 30: Remaining day, first youth spring turkey season
Monday, March 31: Groundhog season ends
Saturday, April 5: Spring trout season opens
Subsequent weekend, April 5-6: Second youth spring turkey season
SCI BANQUET
April 12: SCI Illinois & Chicago chapter’s banquet, Medinah Banquets, Addison
