Keep me posted, I’ll come!

You can also sign up to get text alerts yourself from ICIRR when there’s activity and/or get the app IceBlock

If you attend any protest out in neighborhoods it’s best to read up first on ways to try to protect yourself as much as possible, lots of information on OCAD and ICIRR’s websites and FB pages www.facebook.com/share/1CFmUS...

Downtown protests are WAY safer for most people, though, in addition to being more convenient for most people. They tend to be a lot bigger and there’s definitely strength in numbers, and, well, they’re downtown where even ICE might think twice about their aggressive responses.

They alert others in the area of the activity and send out teams to try to help people being detained as well as their families, and sometimes protests pop up organically on site.

OCAD (Organization for Communities Against Deportation) and ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights) have a rapid response team hotline - (855) 435-7693 - call to report any ICE activity you see.

Camping on the Keweenaw Peninsula a couple of weeks ago for some landscapes and dark skies, I LOVE it up north!

#keweenawpeninsula #northwoods #lakesuperior #darkskies

Belated Happy Birthday! That looks outrageously good!

Your brilliance and Mike’s brilliance are complimentary, I’m so glad to know you both! Bummed I had to bail this morning

Great blue heron classic profile w/ water lilies in the foreground and a nice natural dark backdrop

Great blue heron flexing its wings surrounded by water lilies

Great blue heron lifting off out of the water

Red-winged blackbird dive-bombing/harassing a great blue heron… not sure what the problem was, it didn’t seem to be too close to the shore or any possible nesting areas? The heron didn’t seem to be terribly bothered by it, though.

More great blue herons and one cranky red-winged blackbird

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Great blue heron enjoying a meal

#birds #wadingbirds #greatblueheron #nature #wildlife

Water lilies in bloom

#flowers #nature #water #reflections

Photographing herons is a salve for my ego after missing so many shots of skittering warblers this spring. They stand so still I can even slow down the shutter to blur rushing water! 😅 #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #waterbirds #paddlebirding #kayaking

Two for one! I was tracking the sandpiper in my viewfinder as it worked its way along the muddy banks of the river, snapping a few shots here and there, and never saw the soft shell turtle it passed until the photos were on my computer 😆

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Scoping out places to paddle near Bloomington/Normal and discovered the beautiful Lake Evergreen 🙂

Great blue heron (either sunning itself or flashing someone I didn’t see), American white pelican, turtles and a greater yellowlegs resting its namesake

#birds #nature #kayaking #wildlife #paddling

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Wow!

Saw a pair of red-shouldered hawks this afternoon in Columbus Park. We watched this one raid a nest for dinner! #birds

Yellow-rumped warbler taking flight

Yellow-rumped warbler perched on a small branch

Two yellow-rumped warblers in a willow tree. There were about half a dozen of them launching out from the tree to grab bugs over the adjacent pond :-)

Yellow-rumped warblers #birds

Brown creeper well camouflaged tucked into a crevice in a tree trunk

Brown creeper making its way up the side of the tree

Ruby crowned kinglet perched on a small branch

Ruby crowned kinglet taking flight

Quick break from taxes to do some birding at Columbus Park.

#birds

Sounds good, thanks!

Egret with Horned Grebe in the foreground

Egret flying away

Horned Grebe, cute little guy, out on the water.

Turtle sunning itself on a log

Beautiful day to be on the water at Skokie Lagoons. #skokielagoons #kayaking #nature #wildlife

Birding at Lewis Nine Springs E-Way just south of Madison WI

@dayabetty.bsky.social at a recent fundraiser at ISU

Contact them anyway and shout at them like a goddamn maniac (or do a lot of all caps if it’s a message) and then do it again and again and again. Pretty sure this is what MAGA’s been doing for a while now, must be something to it? 🤷‍♂️

Waco Brothers at Robert’s Westside

Outronaut at Fitzgerald’s in Berwin

Verböten opening for Frank Black at Metro Chicago

Frank Black playing Teenager Of The Year track for track with a few other favorites sprinkled I. For good measure :-)

Lots of photography last weekend! In addition to the shows represented here I also shot a drag show and went birding :-)

Sounds like you might want to come up to Chicago to escape the snow!

Rural Illinois and Wisconsin