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FIELD NOTES —SPRING, 1960 
By ELTON FAWKS 
WINTER BIRDS HERE at Tri-Cities have included Purple Finches, Siskins, 
Rufous-sided Towhee, Common Redpolls, Golden Eagle, Black-crowned 
Night Heron, Brown Thrasher, Common Snipe, and the Goshawk. We have 
had many Goldfinches also. 
Box 112, Route #1, East Moline, IIl. 
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By JACKSON L. BOUGHNER 
ON May 1, 1960, I saw the Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Deer Grove 
Forest Preserve in Cook County for the first time this year. On May 22 
I saw the female at her nest. She was still on the nest through June 5th. 
On May 15 and again on June 5, I saw the Blue Grosbeak. On May 15, I 
saw a partial albino Common Grackle. The lower half of each wing was 
pure white. 
39 South LaSalle Street, Chicago 3, Ill. 
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By C. TURNER NEARING 
ON OCTOBER 19, 1959, while visiting our farm one mile east of Cerro Gordo, 
IlJl., on Route 105, we saw a huge white bird flying from the direction of 
Allerton Park. As it flew 35 feet above us, I suddenly realized it was a 
White Pelican. I took a photograph with my telephoto lens. It seems to me 
this is a record for this area. 
On December 19 we heard that a Harlequin Duck had been sighted in 
Lake Decatur. The bird stayed well out in the water, but through telescopes 
we saw the three spots on the side of the head and the white curved band 
at the shoulder. He disappeared the day of our Christmas Census. The 
lake froze over, but on Dec. 30 we found ducks congregated at one of the 
few open spots, near Lost Bridge. Here was the Harlequin, as weil as 
Mallards, a female Bufflehead, one Gadwall, one Coot, and one Pied-billed 
Grebe. The Harlequin stayed until the ice melted, about March 29, 1960. 
Also on October 19, 1959, in a brush pile 1.1 miles north of Rae Bridge, 
we saw eight Harris’ Sparrows in various stages of maturity. There were 
also White Throats, White Crowns, a Fox Sparrow, and several Song 
Sparrows. In this same brush pile, on Nov. 30, we also found the Chipping, 
Field, Swamp, and Tree Sparrows. 
On May 5, 1960, I saw a changing male Summer Tanager in Fairview 
Park. On May 17 we had two Forster’s Terns and one Black Tern on Lake 
Decatur, both rare for our area. On May 23 a friend told us of finding 
Yellow-headed Blackbirds on a farm near Savoy, IIl. 
Forgot to mention that on April 1 at Lake Decatur, we had Scaup, 
