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Schreiber Lake a 67 acre glacial lake is located at Lakewood Forest Preserve to the NE of the Millennium Trail.
Schreiber Lake itself receives a lot of bright sunshine during the summer months, especially during this time of the year throughout September the white- water lilies are in bloom.
I just like the way the plants and trees give of so many different shades of greens when it's sunny.
It consist of wetlands, shrubs and woodlands many aquatic plants make their home here such as the white waterlily, coontail, star duckweed, flatstem pondweed, common bladderwort common duckweed . Along the shoreline are cattails, pickerelweeds, swamp milkweed, grasses, common arrowheads, ash, rushes and willows.
The lake is mainly surrounded by white oak-trees and other various shrubs such as the buckthorns.
Wildlife: bullfrogs, green frogs, painted turtles which sit on dead fallen trees in the sun to regulate their body temperature, several species of fish, abundance of dragonflies, darters, butterflies (monarchs, swallowtails, fritillaries) and egrets, herons, swallows,
Red-winged blackbird, mallards, double crested cormorants, yellow warblers, seen turkey vultures flying nearby, evidence of beavers, white-tail deer are common and come often to the shoreline to quench their thirst.
Beware of ticks plenty of those…. and other little insect critters.
Max. Depth 25ft
Acres 67
Elevation 835ft
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