Bates to give birding program at IC Audubon on Monday
CASPIAN — Northwoods naturalist John Bates will give a presentation to Iron County Audubon Society at 7 p.m. Monday at the Iron County Historical Museum, 100 Brady Ave. in Caspian. Bates has spent more than three decades watching, listening to and writing about the wild communities of the northwoods. His presentation, “Birding by Habitat,” turns the usual species checklist on its head. Instead of asking what a bird looks like, Bates asks where it lives — and shows how a careful reading of bog, sedge meadow, cedar swamp, hardwood ridge and old-growth pine reveals the birds ...
