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BIRDS SEEN AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 
By LEE G. JOHNSON 
A Big May Day Count, 186 species of birds, was the highlight of the An- 
nual Meeting of the Illinois Audubon Society at Rockford. We have many 
fine spots for birding in our area, but none of our visitors expected to run 
up a big warbler count while sitting in the dining room of the Atwood Out- 
door Education Center and listening to the reports of the club officers! The 
warbler total reached 24, and many of these — including the Bay-breasted, 
Black-throated Green, Cape May, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Blackburnian, 
Blackpoll, and others — were seen at eye level from the dining room win- 
dows and the porch. Many members had the good fortune of seeing a Ceru- 
lean Warbler in the forest preserve on Sunday. 
Other than the former fish hatchery, Rockford does not have any really 
large bodies of water nearby. Nevertheless, the count of water and shore 
birds reached good proportions. The less common species were the Wood 
Duck, Common Goldeneye, Sora Rail, Ruddy Turnstone, and Wilson’s Phala- 
rope. Most watchers saw the nesting Black-crowned Night Herons, Red- 
tailed Hawks, Rough-winged Swallows, and other species which we had 
spotted before the meeting. The best record of all, though, was the last 
one — the nest of a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, conveniently placed about 30 
feet above one of the picnic tables where we stopped for lunch! 
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TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS ELECTED 
FIVE PROMINENT MEMBERS of the I.A.S. were elected to the new office of 
Technical Consultant at the Annual Meeting in Rockford (see list of names 
on the back cover of this Bulletin). Technical Consultants will serve as ad- 
visors to the Society and will carry out special projects, such as natural 
history or habitat studies, in behalf of the Society. However, they will not 
vote at meetings of the Board of Directors and will not take part in for- 
mulating the decisions and policies of the Board, especially in matters per- 
taining to conservation legislation and bird or wildlife protection. 
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TWO NEW COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN NAMED 
AT THE JUNE MEETING of the I.A.S. Board of Directors, George B. Fell of 
Rockford was appointed Chairman of the Finance Committee, replacing 
Oliver C. Heywood of Hinsdale, who was forced to retire because of ill 
health. Mr. Heywood, however, will still serve the Society as Technical 
Consultant on legal and fiscal problems. Elton Fawks of East Moline, one 
of our hardest-working directors for many years, was named Chairman of 
the Pesticides Committee. He replaces Mrs. Lester Stolte, who has resigned 
to return to her original home in Ohio. Mrs. Stolte has fought insecticide 
Spraying programs vigorously for more than two years, and she will be 
sorely missed. 
