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Thesl96isI- A, Ss. Campout 
By TED GREER, Campout Chairman 
WE HELD THE SIXTH I. A. S. Campout on September 9-10 at Starved Rock 
State Park, with our headquarters at the Kaskaskia Hotel in LaSalle, Illi- 
nois. Attendance was better than ever, with 87 persons registered for the 
evening banquet and program. We started with an early afternoon hike 
along the park trails to the sandstone bluffs overlooking the Illinois River, 
where egrets, herons, and several varieties of ducks were seen. The weather 
was humid and almost hot, which made the steep trails difficult. For those 
who stayed at the hotel, Joseph Galbreath and Raymond Mostek conducted 
a round-table discussion on survival of the Prairie Chicken in Illinois. 
After the banquet several directors of the Society brought us up to date 
on conservation activities. The speaker of the evening was Paul Downing, 
our president, who summarized his many years of experience as a bird 
bander. He held everyone absorbed with his accounts of banding Chimney 
Swifts in traps of his own design. To illustrate his story, he showed movies 
of himself teetering many feet above the ground at the tops of tall chim- 
neys. Later some movies of the Wisconsin Audubon Camp and the albatross 
were shown. The program closed with a slide fest composed of the best 
pictures taken by our members during the past year. 
The Sunday morning bird hike covered the river bottom land southwest 
of the park. As an added item of interest, we all had an opportunity to see 
how Robert Trail and Peter Petersen, Jr., operate their mist netting sta- 
tions. It was a thrill to see at first hand how effective these nets were, 
especially when a number of uncommon fall warblers turned up. The total 
bird count for the two days reached 68 species, including five kinds of fly- 
catchers, four kinds of vireos, and ten kinds of warblers — not bad for a 
September weekend. We are happy to find the Campouts so well attended 
and we trust that the interest will continue to grow. 
Enchanted Hill Garden, Joy, Illinois 
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NUTRIMENT 
Once upon a winter's day 
Unnumbered years ago 
| saw, from childhood's window, 
A red bird in the snow. 
And a wizened farmer 
Who swept away the drifts 
And gave sunflower seeds and grit 
Taught me much of gifts. 
Emeline Ennis Kotula 
