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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



or three kinds nesting there, as well as many of the water birds. 



A hunting club has had the privilege 

 of shooting during the season for 

 many years. It has been the wish of 

 the bird-lovers that this spot might 

 be saved or protected for the birds 

 and their wish has been granted. A 

 Golf club has ben organized, leasing 

 160 acres from the estate of Mr. Ar- 

 thur Dixon, the lake lying in the cen- 

 ter of the property. The young men 

 organizing the club have named the 

 lake "Ruth Lake" after one of their 

 friends who died in France. The 

 birds are to be protected on the en- 

 tire property including the lake. 



Every such bit of wild landscape 

 protected and made accessible for 

 public enjoyment will be educative in 

 its influence. When the beauty of a 

 marsh and its significant revelation 

 of wild life become generally recog- 

 will become a matter of course. 



Photo by Calvin R. Cahn 



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Miss Alice Jean Patterson writes : 



We have had an unusual number of Golden-crowned King- 

 lets in this locality all winter. They have been feeding around 

 the clumps of shrubs on the campus. Cardinals also have been 

 more numerous than usual. They have been singing continu- 

 ally since the last of January. 



The Bohemian Waxwings were seen here the first week in 

 January. A Red-breasted Nuthatch has been feeding in the 

 yard of a neighbor all winter. 



The first Robin I saw was on February first. On the same 

 day in Bloomington six were seen together in a yard. My first 

 Bluebird was recorded the twenty-fourth. I have reports of 

 several seen the twenty-fifth. A Song Sparrow was heard the 

 eighteenth. 



The fifth and sixth grade children are starting on their 

 bird houses. Some will be put up on the campus, some on home 

 grounds. The seventh grade boys are planning a Martin box 

 to be placed on the campus. 



The Boy Scouts of the vicinity of Bloomington and Normal 

 are getting ready for a bird house contest. They hope to have 

 several hundred houses to put up. 



We are much concerned about the problem of stray cats. 

 Last spring we went to the mayor of the town to see if an ordi- 

 nance could not be passed to legalize the killing of all cats found 



