Wild of the Week: Geese taking off in fall

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Joyce Truby “caught these geese taking off from Meadow Lake in the Morton Arboretum” in Lisle.

I like the fall color upfront on the photo.

Send nominations for WOTW, the occasional celebration of wild things around Chicago outdoors on Sundays on the Sun-Times outdoors page, to straycasts@sbcglobal.net.

Usually this time of the year, I am running Buck of the Week: Unplugged.And I will get back to running BOTW: Unplugged, but if the WOTW photo is better, I am running the better and more interesting photo.

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