Hunting for frogs on Elston, and other tales from Field and street [electronic resource] /
Jerry Sullivan ; edited by Victor M. Cassidy ; illustrations by Bobby Sutton.
- University of Chicago Press, c2004.
- 1 online resource (xv, 303 p.) : ill.
The columns reproduced in this volume appeared originally as a series in the Chicago reader, under the title "Field & street"--P. "Published in association with Chicago Wilderness."
Introduction / by Glenda Daniel. -- 1. State of the prairie. Prairie cathedral 9/27/85 ; Fragmented grasslands 5/22/87 ; Managing nature 10/9/87 ; Too many deer 1/3/92 ; Middle Fork savanna 7/9/93 ; Biodiversity 2/22/91 ; Transanimaling 6/26/92 ; Prairie September 9/25/98. -- 2. The seasons. Spring comes to Chicago 2/24/95 ; Early Spring 3/13/98 ; Early risers 3/9/84 ; The ephemerals' moment 4/12/85 ; Cherries 7/11/97 ; Bees 7/3/98 ; Fall flora 10/17/97 ; Turkeys 11/16/84 ; Winter reading 12/20/85 ; Squirrels' nests 1/27/95 ; Ice fishing 1/20/84 ; Feeding urban birds 12/12/86. -- 3. Creatures great and small. Hunting for frogs on Elston Avenue 5/16/86 ; Caterpillars 8/30/85 ; Woodchucks 3/8/91 ; Counting butterflies 7/15/88 ; Sludge worms 2/14/92 ; Rattlesnake hunting 8/14/92 ; Ant transplant 3/27/87 ; Searching for bats 8/10/84 ; Fireflies 7/19/85 ; Migrating Monarchs 9/7/84 ; Badgers 11/23/90 ; Chorus frogs 3/27/98 ; Coyotes in the city 9/11/87 ; Yellow jackets 9/11/87 ; Reading animal tracks 1/25/91. 4. Birds and more birds. The bird hunter 5/10/85 ; Woodpeckers 1/16/87 ; Looking for a gyrfalcon 2/8/91 ; Sparrows 4/6/84 ; Red-tailed hawks 3/13/87 ; Birding in North Channel 7/17/92 ; Kestrels 1/18/85 ; Savanna birds 2/19/93 Feathers 4/10/87 ; Winter flocks 12/1/89 ; Christmas bird count 1/8/88 ; How to find nests 6/14/91 ; Mourning doves 3/24/95 ; Goldfinches 9/28/90 ; The passenger pigeon 4/4/86. -- 5. Plants. Healthy communities 2/27/98 ; Oak trees 12/16/94 ; Sedges 6/27/97 ; Nightshade 6/13/86 ; Purple loosestrife 9/5/97 ; Jewelweed 10/3/86 ; Hazels 10/11/96 ; Raspberries 7/17/98 ; Wild onions 1/31/92 ; Eastern prairie fringed orchid 10/1/93. -- 6. People and places. Field guides 9/8/89 ; Surveying Illinois 6/21/96 ; Inland marsh 1/5/96 ; Women naturalists 7/25/86 ; Bird-watchers 8/28/87 ; Henry Chandler Cowles 11/6/98 ; Poplar Creek Preserve 9/6/91 ; Lichen scholar 11/3/95 ; Dinosaurs and birds 11/9/90 ; Roger Tory Peterson 8/16/96.