Birders on recent bird walks enjoyed gorgeous weather and a great variety of birds at Helmick Nature Preserve and Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center. Check the Events page for upcoming walks.

Thorn Creek Audubon is pleased to announce: We are accepting applications for the 2021 Thorn Creek Audubon Environmental Grant Program.

Over 200 plants were donated to Will County's Monee Reservoir preserve. The diverse plants will provide flowers for pollinators and hummingbirds and the preserve's native plant educational programs.

The Neola Street Community Garden in Park Forest, Ill., has a new native plant garden for pollinators and birds. The expansion was supported by a Thorn Creek Audubon grant.

A fun spring bird walk schedule wrapped up at Orland Grassland - South on May 29. We’re excited to be planning an expanded fall outings schedule and in-person evening programs.

We were delighted to be able to resume bird walks just in time for spring migration. Groups headed out on two bird hikes in April and three field trips are set for May.

The Bird Conservation Network and land managers are expanding a breeding birds monitoring program to additional sites. BCN is looking for birders to help launch the expansion with the June 2021 bird count survey.

Birders in Will, Cook, and Lake (Ind) Counties kicked off the year watching birds at home in a friendly Thorn Creek Audubon yard bird count competition. The results...

The 2020 Grants will support Bartel Grassland improvements, the BCN breeding bird species data analysis, and the addition of native plantings at the Neola Street Community Garden (Park Forest)

To launch a new year of birding fun, Thorn Creek Audubon is inviting birders to participate in a friendly yard count competition on Jan 2 & 3.

Thorn Creek Audubon birders share their recent sightings of Pine Siskins, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Purple Finches.

Thorn Creek Audubon is pleased to announce: We are accepting applications for the 2020 Thorn Creek Audubon Grant Program.

You can watch a recording of this Forest Preserve District of Will County event online and learn about Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

Thorn Creek Audubon members volunteer to safely deliver plants to customers in place of the usual plant pick-up day at Homewood Izaak Walton Preserve.

Smart gardeners know that it's the presence of pollinators that makes the difference in the health and fertility and productivity of wild plants, food plants, and landscape plants alike.

Started almost a century apart in quite different ways for different causes, both celebrations aim to help improve our environment.

When the nature center was faced with reduced staff and shortened hours, Thorn Creek Audubon members mobilized a group to volunteer and help keep the center open.

If you're looking to help save Monarch Butterflies, look no further than local expert and Thorn Creek Audubon member Kay MacNeil.

One birder's antidote for Midwest road trip monotony.

Be part of the annual nationwide Audubon Winter Bird Count on January 4, 2020, by volunteering for a Thorn Creek Audubon team. Photo: Gregory Hejnar.