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Pintails and an occasional Merganser, 

 times be found separately, but thev 

 are usually mixed in the flocks and 

 in their flights. Flocks of Canada 

 Geese and an occasional White Peli- 

 can are seen. 



About two weeks after the Rob- 

 ins began their return the Red- 

 winged Blackbirds began to come. 

 By the first of March they were 

 living back and forth to the lake 

 daily by the hundreds. At the same 

 time came also some Black Martins, 

 Song Sparrows, Bronzed Grackles 

 and Rusty Blackbirds. By March 

 8 were seen Crows, Turtle Doves, 

 Flickers, White-eyed Vireos, Be- 

 wick Wrens, Rose-breasted Gros- 

 beaks and on March 10 a Baltimore 

 Oriole was heard. 



The kinds may some 



Photo bv Alvin R. Cahn 



YOUNG BALTIMORE ORIOLE 



Elgi 



in 



The Elgin Audubon Society has its program of monthly 

 meetings, which continue through each month of the year as 

 reported by the Secretary, Miss Lillian Smith. For March the 

 program included a paper on Game Laws by Myron T. Foster 

 and one on Sea Gulls by Miss Nellie Bond. Mrs. David C. Cook 

 is to be the hostess for the April meeting and talks on Bird 

 Banding by Fred Meister, on Owls by Mrs. E. J. Botsford, and 

 Housing Birds by Howard Graves will be given. The calendar 

 for the year shows a series of interesting programs concluded 

 by the annual dinner, which occurs in January. 



The Society is especially interested in the city of Elgin's new 

 possession, Trout Park, with its arbor vitae and red cedar swamp 

 and other residual vegetation harking back to the days of the 

 receding of the glacier mantle from this area. The Bulletin is 

 to have a special report on this area from Elgin members. It is 

 hoped that the Elgin Society can make a careful nesting census 

 of the Park during the present season for publication in the 

 Bulletin. 



C. E. 



Hinsdale 



Raymond tells of another conserva- 



A note from Mrs. 

 tion project: 



A short distance southwest of Hinsdale is a lake and a large 

 area of swamp land which has given bird-lovers a great deal 

 of enjoyment. Spring and fall ducks are quite plentiful, two 



