Did about twenty miles of Forest Preserve dirt trails over the weekend on the mountain bike and loved it. Lots of birds and too many deer to count. Best bird seen, beauty-wise was a magnificent Scarlet
Tanager. Even in the dark and gloomy forest with my little
Swarovski compact binocular, the bird's color took my breath away. Who syas a compact
binocular cannot be used for birding? Always a treat to see a Scarlet and have to say the species compares very nicely with the Western Tanagers I used to see in the panhandle of Nebraska. Now all I have to do is head south with my
binocular and get a Summer Tanager.