OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WISCONSIN AND ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETIES. 
One fear 25 Cents Single Copy 3 Cents 
Published by the Wisconsin Audubon Society, at Appleton, Wisconsin. 
Entered as second-class matter May 16, 1904 at Appleton, Wis., under the act of Congress of Mar. 3, ’79. 
VOL IX.. m APRIL, 1907. ~ Nolo 
Winter Bird Life in Warren County, Ill. 
Little York, Ill., Feb. 16, 1907. 
Dear Miss Drummond: 
Isn’t this a delightful week? It has 
been sunny here for five whole da vs. It 
was almost 64° above zero to-day at one 
o’clock. And the birds! Just imagine 
“our state of mind” when these birds are 
demanding our attention. 
For a happy Valentines on Thursday 
100 goldfinches sang and fed, twittered 
rather, in a wheat field, eight rods from 
from us. They seemed to have several 
different suits. I suppose the males are 
undergoing the transition to black and 
lemon summer suits. They were very 
hungry, feeding on weed seeds, golden 
rod, also dry raspberry seeds. ' They 
would rise, then settle in a flock very 
near a small boy we had sent to drive 
them over near us. 
The Kingfisher has been here every 
day, nearly, about a creek. Eighty geese 
fly west to the Mississippi River nearly 
every evening at sundown. At 6:30 in 
the morning they fly over again going 
southeast to the meadows or cornfields, 
the farmers say. It is in the direction of 
Peoria Lake. 
A boy who lives near a fifty-acre tim¬ 
ber lot, sees three bluebirds about four 
days of every week. He has seen them 
since January 10. 
We have a new woodpecker. It has a 
bright scarlet nape, more on its head 
and its neck than the hairy woodpecker 
has. It has a grayer back, wings and 
tail than the hairy which seems to us 
black and white (the hairy). The new 
woodpecker is whitish grav in front. It 
is on our maple trees and corn crib here, 
and feeds every day at our meat bone and 
bread at school, on a tree six feet from 
our window. We can see no color such 
as yellow or red on its breast or belly. 
We thought if we could see color there it 
was the red-bellied woodpecker. It is 
ten inches, I think. The hairy and 
downy feed every day on the same tree 
with the newcomer, I do wish you 
would tell us its name. Today it has 
been tapping the rotten tree stub and 
seems to be listening for an answer. It 
has given a call like the red-headed 
woodpecker, somewhat, just within the 
last four davs. 
%/ 
The golden-crowned kinglet was buzz¬ 
ing around in our Norway spruce to-day 
at noon. Then we heard a chorus in our 
new orchard. We went cautiously out 
and hid behind a peach tree. We saw 
two kinglets in a Maiden Blush tree, 
six or eight sparrows, song c sparrows we 
think. They had brownish backs. They 
were feeding with three juncos in the 
currant bushe® and on the ground. We 
could not get near enough to see the 
black dot on the breast of the song spar¬ 
rows. Later in a meadow back of the 
orchard near a stream we saw three 
pair of sparrows. The male sang, waited, 
sang, waited, then rose singing, getting 
