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Kingfisher, Black-crowned Night Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, 
Kingbird. 
Mrs. Lampert’s list represents her observations in one day 
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 codperation 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. 
