ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 33 



Kingfisher, Black-crowned Night Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, 

 Kingbird. 



Mrs. Lampert's list represents her observations in one dav 

 from a window looking out on a small city lot on a principal 

 street : 



Black-and-white Creeping, Black-throated Blue, Canadian, 

 Cape May, Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana Water-Thrush 

 Magnolia, Myrtle, Ovenbird, Palm, Prairie, Redstart, Tennessee, 

 Yellow. 



Other birds seen same day. 



Carolina Wren, Catbird, Robins, Blue Jays, Olive-back 

 Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Wood Thrush, Veery, Red-eyed Vireo. 



Decatur 



The Decatur Bird and Tree Club is entering enthusiastically 

 upon the new year in the consciousness that the Decatur Lake 

 is an accredited bird preserve by the action of the State of 

 Illinois. The water impounding project just completed has thrown 

 the old Sangamon river into a broad expanse of water ten miles 

 long which promises much to the lover of bird life. Already 

 Decatur people are seeing that ducks and wild geese arriving 

 here are conscious of their protection. 



The membership of the club last year numbered 262 Senior 

 members and 517 Junior members, and the effort has been made 

 to interest the public in the protection of bird life through the 

 various activities of the organizations, lectures, hikes and junior 

 organizations as well as through the study classes. 



Mr. Henry Oldys of Silver Spring, Maryland, gave two inter- 

 esting lectures, beautifully illustrated, afternoon and evening 

 of May 16, 1921. In the fall Mr. Orpheus M. Schantz, President 

 of the Illinois Audubon Society, gave an interesting and in- 

 structive talk to the club. 



Mr. H. D. Spencer of our own organization gave an illustrated 

 lecture on the growing of nut trees, specializing on the budding 

 and grafting. 



The Junior Department has organized clubs in eight of the 

 Decatur schools in which birds are studied, the children taking 

 great delight in the trips to the woods where the wild birds 

 may be seen to best advantage. Drills from the chart are given 

 the children by the teacher in recognition of the birds, one 

 teacher allowing those who could name all the birds to act as 

 hike leader, taking a group of children out for study. The Bird 

 and Tree Club furnished each Junior Club a bird chart and liter- 

 ature. 



The Decatur Club has the cooperation of the Decatur City 

 Planning Commission and of the "School Beautiful" committee 

 of the Parent-Teachers Association, which is shown in the 

 planting, shrubbery for the school grounds being chosen which 

 gives protection and food for the birds. 



