I was on my cross-country skis enjoying the peaceful woodland setting, and the quiet was suddenly broken by a loud “chit-chit-chit.” I looked up into the branches of a nearby pine and saw a chickaree.
About a month ago, a hiker at Sand Ridge Nature Center in South Holland spotted a small creature with reddish brown fur scurrying up the trunk of a long-needled pine tree. “At first we thought it ...