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Birds in Busy Chicago 
How much it would add to our joy in the glad springtime if 
we all knew the birds we have with us — right here in busy 
Chicago, especially during migration. 
In our neighbor’s small yard, which boasts of one syringa and 
a bridal-wreath bush, also a few feet of hedge, and even in the 
dirt of the alley on the other side of our premises, and within 
a radius of a block, I have seen 62 different species of birds. 
We live on a typical Chicago street and only a half block from 
Ridge Avenue. 
Last spring my bird trips were somewhat limited because of 
my being on crutches, so eyes and ears were keener and con- 
stantly on the alert for the birds about us. 
A wood thrush sang two evenings in a nearby yard! What 
was my surprise while lying in the hammock on the porch to see 
a warbler in the lower branches of a tree close to the porch rail- 
ing — it proved to be that rare sprite, the Cerulean Warbler! 
On the 14th of September a yellow rail appeared in the middle 
of the street in front of our house and walked to the curb where 
it hid in a border of petunias! 
The following is a list of the birds seen: 
Evening Grosbeak, Wild Geese, Woodpeckers: Downy, Hairy, 
Red-headed, Flicker, Sapsucker; Crow, Bluejay, Junco, Bluebird, 
Robin, Grackle, Brown Creeper, Sparrows: Song, Swamp, 
White-throated, White-crowned, Fox, Chipping; Flycatchers: 
Phoebe, Pewee, Least, Yellow-bellied, Alder, Acadian; Purple 
Martin, Kinglets: Golden-crowned, Ruby-crowned; Catbird, Ori- 
ole, House Wren, Ovenbird, Thrushes: Hermit, Gray-cheeked, 
Olive-backed, Wood, Veery, Northern Water, Louisiana Water; 
American Bittern, Humming Bird, Night Hawk, Goldfinch, Scar- 
let Tanager, Black-billed Cuckoo; Vireos; Red-eyed, Philadelph- 
ia, Warbling, Warblers: Myrtle, Black and White, Yellow, Cape 
May, Canadian, Tennessee, Mourning, Ceurulean, Redstart, 
Nuthatches: White-breasted, Red-breasted; Brown Thrasher, 
Yellow Rail. 
GLADYS FOWLER. 
Decatur Lake 
Decatur Lake has been created a state wild fowl preserve. 
A popular movement directed to this end led to an appeal to 
Chief Game Warden, Wm. J. Stratton of Springfield. He at 
once instructed the local game warden, T. A. Nolan, to secure 
the necessary data defining the area authoritatively and fixing 
the state’s control through formal leases, etc. The state will 
post the area thoroughly and through the cooperation of warden 
and interested citizens it is hoped to make it a well-protected 
sanctuary. 
