LINCOLN PARK — An Albany Park birder and blogger brings the wilds of the Northwest Side to the Notebaert Nature Museum Thursday for a discussion on "LaBagh Woods: More Than a Fragment, a Remnant of Hope."
Jeff Skrentny, who started the "My Year Birding at LaBagh Woods" blog on Facebook two years ago, speaks from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday at the museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, in a free program open to the public.
"Jeff will share insights gained from spending so much time in this tiny fragment of nature," according to a museum news release. "He will regale us with a bit of the fascinating history of LaBagh, and then plunge us into the multitudinous variety of life that can be found there."
Located off Cicero Avenue between Foster and Bryn Mawr avenues, LaBagh Woods is run by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. A river runs through it — the North Branch of the Chicago River, of course — and Skrentny has documented hundreds of bird, mammal, reptile and amphibian species across its 180 acres.
"Really what it says is how tenacious life is, despite the obstacles we humans provide for this life's survival," Skrentny has said. "This place holds a lot of urban life, a lot of it, and it needs to be treated as the special place it is."
