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Black-capped Chickadee: May 3. Building nest. Winnebago County. Prentice. 
May 17. Five young. Boone County. Prentice. 
May 29. Kight young. Winnebago County. Prentice. 
May 29. Three young in nest in 24%” pipe. Open at top and 3 feet deep. Campbell’s 
Island. Rock Island County. Fawks. 
June 7. Six young. Winnebago County. Prentice. 
White-breasted Nuthatch: April 17. Incubating. April 25. Feeding young. Nest in 
cavity up in white oak. Richland County. V. Shaw. 
May 18. Feeding young. Winnebago County. Prentice. 
House Wren: Fifty-six nests were reported: 36 nests. Lee County. Keegan. 2 nests. 
Woodford County. Webster. 2 nests. Whiteside County. Hagans. 16 nests. Ogle 
County. Keegan and Dusing. 
The earliest was May 12, the latest August 13, with 24 of the reports between June 
12 and July 31. The peak came on July 31 when Keegan banded 57 young from 
eleven nests. The number of eggs or young per nest was as follows: 7 nests — 1 
young; 3 nests — 3 young; 8 nests — 4 young; 12 nests — 5 young; 17 nests — 
6 young; 1 nest — 7 young; 1 nest — 9 young; 7 nests — no number given. 
Using the forty-nine nesting reports that listed data on numbers of young per nest, 
the average was 4.6 young per nest. 
Bewick’s Wren: May 30. Three eggs in nest. Lee County. Fawks. 
June 28. Three young and one infertile egg. Young left nest on June 25. (Note: 
‘“*This nest was in the tool box of a tractor which was in use during the entire 
nesting period.’’) Rock Island County. Petersen. 
Carolina Wren: April 5. Incubating eggs. Young left nest on April 27. Richland 
County. Scherer. 
June 14. Four young in box on garage window sill. Left nest on June 17. Richland 
County. V. Shaw. 
Mockingbird: June 21. Four young in nest. Out of nest June 26. Winnebago County. 
Prentice. 
August 19. Three young in nest in climbing rose. All but one left nest August 21. 
Macon County. Nearing. 
Catbird: May 11. Incubating. May 31. 4 young. June 4. Left nest. Macon County. 
Nearing. 
May 31. Building nest. June 20, one young in nest. Whiteside County. Hagans. 
June 8. Four eggs in nest. Two young, June 14. Four young, June 15. Four left nest, 
June 25. Woodford County. Webster. 
June 14. Four young in nest. Whiteside County. Keegan. 
August 3. Two young in nest. Sangamon County. Hopkins. 
Brown Thrasher: May 25. Nest in hawthorn tree. Two young, May 30. Nest deserted, 
June 6. DuPage County. Mostek. 
May 25. Nest in tree. DuPage County. Mostek. 
May 25. Nest in tree. DuPage County. Mostek. 
June 28, Feeding two young. Whiteside County. H. Shaw. 
July 1. Three young out of nest. Woodford County. Webster. 
Robin: Twenty-seven nestings reported. Earliest April 8; latest July 31; median 
May 13. Nest building reported from April 13 to June 12. Number of eggs per 
nest varied from one (presumably incomplete) to four. Twenty young from nine 
different nests were observed to have successfully left the nests. Reports were 
from: Richland, Whiteside, DuPage and Cook, Macon, Ogle, McLean, Sangamon, 
Woodford, DuPage, Piatt, and Lee counties by Scherer, V. Shaw, H. Shaw, Hagans, 
Mostek, Nearing, Dusing, Irwin, Hopkins, Webster, Lobik, and Keegan. 
Common Bluebird: Seventy nests were reported which produced 154+ birds. The 
earliest date reported was April 10 when eight pairs were reported as building 
nests in the houses erected by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shaw on their bluebird trail. 
The latest date was reported as August 28, three young in a nest reported by 
Jack Keegan in Lee County. Keegan maintains a bluebird trail of 100 houses 
which sheltered 57 nests and raised 136 young. Clutches of eggs reported from 
May 4 to August 24; young in the nests from May 11 to August 28. In all these 
reports, no mention was made of any loss by predation. Reports were submitted 
by: Prentice, Keegan, Irwin, Lobik, and H. Shaw for Winnebago, Lee, Macon, 
Piatt, and JoDaviess counties. 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher: April 17. Incubating eggs. Nest 3 feet up on horizontal limb 
of oak tree. Richland County. V. Shaw. 
Loggerhead Shrike: April 19. Nesting. May 29, eight young, approximately two and 
one half weeks old. Winnebago County. Prentice. 
April 26. Five eggs. Lee County. Shaw. 
