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Pintails and an occasional Merganser. The kinds may some- 
times be found separately, but they 
are usually mixed in the flocks and 
in their flights. Flocks of Canada 
Geese and an occasional White Peli- 
can are seen. 
About two weeks after the Rob- 
ins began their return the Red- 
winged Blackbirds began to come. 
By the first of March they were 
flying back and forth to the lake 
daily by the hundreds. At the same 
time came also some Black Martins, 
Song Sparrows, Bronzed Grackles 
and Rusty Blackbirds. By March 
8 were seen Crows, Turtle Doves, 
Flickers, White-eyed Vireos, Be- 
wick Wrens, Rose-breasted Gros- 
beaks and on March 10 a Baltimore 
ae Photo by Alvin R. Cahn 
Oriole was heard. YOUNG BALTIMORE ORIOLE 
Elgin 
The Elgin Audubon Society has its program of monthly 
meetings, which continue through each month of the year as 
reported by the Secretary, Miss Lillian Smith. For March the 
program included a paper on Game Laws by Myron T. Foster 
and one on Sea Gulls by Miss Nellie Bond. Mrs. David C. Cook 
is to be the hostess for the April meeting and talks on Bird 
Banding by Fred Meister, on Owls by Mrs. E. J. Botsford, and 
Housing Birds by Howard Graves will be given. The calendar 
for the year shows a series of interesting programs concluded 
by the annual dinner, which occurs in January. 
The Society is especially interested in the city of Elgin’s new 
possession, Trout Park, with its arbor vitae and red cedar swamp 
and other residual vegetation harking back to the days of the 
receding of the glacier mantle from this area. The Bulletin is 
to have a special report on this area from Elgin members. It is 
hoped that the Elgin Society can make a careful nesting census 
of the Park during the present season for publication in the 
Bulletin. 

Hinsdale 
A note from Mrs. C. E. Raymond tells of another conserva- 
tion project: 
A short distance southwest of Hinsdale is a lake and a large 
area of swamp land which has given bird-lovers a great deal 
of enjoyment. Spring and fall ducks are quite plentiful, two 
