Editors Note: Wendy Paulson’s first Barrington bird hike of this spring is coming up at Ron Beese Park at 8 a.m. this
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If there is any songbird that consistently arrests attention, especially in a winter landscape, it would be the northern cardinal. The brilliant
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Cross-country skiing on the first day of February in a local forest preserve, I brightened at the call of a black-capped chickadee:
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A fair number of Barringtonians head south for winter months, joining other northern “snowbirds” in places with warmer winter climates. But Barrington
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Lots of people ask me what my favorite bird is. I don’t hesitate to answer. It has been and, I suspect, always
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The bobolink, a bird of large grasslands, is one of Barrington’s most cosmopolitan summer residents. It spends winter months in the pampas
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Have you caught yourself staring at a largish, elegant, pure white bird flying above town in graceful wingbeat? Or standing statuesque and
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A woodpecker on the ground?? If you see what you think might be a woodpecker on terra firma, it is likely to
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