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in the day while returning from Dixon, we saw a kingbird chase a hawk 
high up in the air; and the meadow larks on the fence posts along the ~ 
road. 
Wednesday my hike led me up into the woods to the north of the vil- 
lage and there I saw my first cardinal, both the male and the female, a 
flock of chickadees, a yellow warbler, cowbird, the bronzed grackle, crow, 
pewee, phoebe, brown thrasher, indigo bunting, least flycatcher, hairy 
woodpecker, golden-winged warbler, red-eyed vireo, field sparrow, ves- 
per sparrow and the red-winged blackbird. 
On the hotel grounds I found seven Baltimore oriole nests, and one 
nest of the warbling vireo. We often watched these birds feeding their 
young; and the joy of the coloring of the oriole, and the song of the vireo 
where like a tonic and we never grew tired of the experience. Mr. Hud- 
son, the English naturalist, calls the sight and song of birds his medicine 
and they truly are a constant delight. 
On the hotel grounds also I saw the cedar waxwing, a pair of them 
several times, and coming from a hike to Green Rock where States 
Attorney Brundage is building his summer home, I saw a dickcissel. He 
is a beauty, much more beautiful than pictures show him because his 
coloring is so unusual and varied. 
At a Girl Scouts’ Camp about five miles from Grand Detour, where I 
went to give some bird talks and hikes, I saw the killdeer, the white- 
breasted nuthatch and the black-billed cuckoo. 
At White Rock, at Green Rock and other of the sandstone mounds 
about here, there were colonies of the rough-winged swallows. I also 
saw the orchard oriole, the herring gull, but I missed the bobolink. 
The Baltimore orioles were more plentiful than the robins and the 
cat-birds gave us beautiful concerts all day long. In all a paradise of 
birds, trees and flowers, a delightful hotel, and a vacation all too short— 
of two weeks. Most sincerely yours, 
(Miss) Ciara L. Mooney. 
Publicity Given to Sycamore, Illinois, 
Conservation Plan 
“T am very much interested in the novel plan of Mr. Louis Lloyd of 
Sycamore, Illinois, who has leased twelve thousand acres of river valley 
to the State of Illinois, which you described in the 1924 Bulletin. 
“Would it be possible for you to obtain for me photographs of beautiful 
scenery along the Kishwaukee River Valley, together with a portrait of 
Mr. Lloyd? No doubt the chambers of commerce along the valley 
would gladly send photographs for so worthy a purpose and one that 
would bring tourist trade to their section. 
