

BIRD FEEDER "NOTES" MAKE AUDUBON FRIENDSHIPS 
FROM NEAR STARVED ROCK the following fascinating account of bird life reached 
Betty Groth, Vice President for Conservation. The writer once saw nearly 
thirty PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS on a southern trip. 
"Dear Betty Groth: What a nice surprise to receive your greetings and news! 
You must love your new bird feeder. (Lantern type on metal pole, seed feeding 
from glass lantern; feeder by low willows at edge of Salt Creek). I find the 
birds always look over a new one for some time before they venture to it. We 
have cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers and one red-bellied. Then there 
are titmice and chickadees and a brown creeper, an occasional blue jay, and 
5 quail. And one day last week I saw 3 purple finches! Oc course the juncoes 
feed on the ground under the feeder. 
On our Bird Walk in Florida we were led by Dr. Frank Wolcott, who with Arthur 
A. Allen, set up the first CHAIR OF ORNITHOLOGY at any American college - at 
CORNELL. We stopped Sebastian Inlet first, where we saw Royal, Caspian, and 
common terns, brown pelicans, herring and ring-billed and laughing gulls, AND 
on the rocks at the jetty, PURPLE SANDPIPERS, who have been seen so far south 
only for the past few years. Then we went on to a sandbar in the INDIAN RIVER 
where we observed black skimmers, oyster catchers, sanderlings, a snowy plover 
and a semi-palmated plover, willets and ruddy turnstones, and finally a 
LOUISIANA HERON, which was joined by a little blue heron. This gave us such 
a good opportunity to compare the two, and to watch the different methods of 
feeding. 
This sandbar is one of the best places to see birds and one of the few where 
Oyster catchers may be observed. Its popularity with the birds is due to the 
fact that a little fresh-water creek empties into the Indian River, (which is 
salt) at this point. The bar is completely exposed at low tide. It is just 
north of the little settlements of Grant and Malabar on U.S. #1, and there 
are broad shoulders on the river side where one may park and walk along. You 
will find this place just a few miles south of Melbourne. 
Martha S. Struever 
Twin Oak Road, Peru, Illinois 61354 
NOTE : 
We are delighted to get this birding news from Mrs. Carl Struever, because 
top officers of the ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY are working with LASALLE PERU 
BIRD WATCHERS CONSERVATIONISTS AND RECREATIONISTS TO CREATE A NEW IAS CHAP- 
TER IN THAT AREA, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT FOR CONSERVATION LeROY TUNSTALL 
FOUNDED A NEW AFFILIATE IN WHEATON SOME YEARS BACK JUST BY CHECKING BIRD 
FEEDERS IN THE AREA AND GETTING NAMES OF OWNERS. Have YOU TRIED THIS in your 
area to get others interested in the Audubon program and ILLINOIS AUDUBON 
SOCIETY? 
Miss Betty Groth 
Vice President - Conservation 
179 Villa Road, Addison 60101 
CONSERVATION BIBLIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE A new book, "Conservation 
Education: A Selected Bibliography" should be a big help to teachers. 
It may be ordered from: Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, 
Ill. 61832, Order No. 996. Price is $2.50, less educational! discounts. 
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Deadline for copy for the April Audubon Newsletter is March 5, 1969. Kindly 
send single space copy to: Judith Joy, Editor, PO Box 3/ Centralia, Ill. 62808 
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