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Incidentally, the appearance of Field Notes in the last issue had at 
least one good effect: several members sent in some bona fide records, as 
shown in the notes under Editor Hoger’s name elsewhere in this issue. 
Additional reports of rarities — or exceptionally early or late dates for 
regular migrants — are always welcome. Send them to Mr. Hoger. 
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C. Russell Mason, Executive Director of the Florida Audubon Society, 
recently wrote as follows to Mrs. C. F. Russell, Chairman of the IAS. 
Bald Eagle Club: “You will be interested to know that our total acreage 
of Bald Eagle Cooperative Sanctuaries (mostly ranches) now runs above 
850,000, and we hope to make it a million acres before the end of the 
year. This, with Everglades National Park, will give some sort of pro- 
tection to more than 50% of the Bald Eagle nests in Florida. The latest 
ranch we signed up, over 13,000 acres, had five active Bald Eagle nests on 
it this year ... Your members have been very helpful in sending us used 
commemorative postage stamps to sell for the Bald Eagle fund. Just got 
another packet from Illinois this week.” 
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Mrs. Nina Stutzman of Springfield was elected a Director of the Society 
at the October Board Meeting. She will give us representation in the State 
Capitol that we have needed sorely for some time. Her comments on the 
recent legislature and the governor’s vetoes appear elsewhere in this issue. 
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Color Slides Wanted! — At the forthcoming May Annual Meeting of the 
Society in Joliet, we hope to present a program of nature slides taken 
by members, as we do at the Camp-Outs. If you have any slides to submit, 
please communicate with Director Alfred Reuss, 2908 Edison Street, Blue 
Island, Illinois. 
22W681 Tamarack Drive, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 
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BATHERS IN DRIPPING BATHS PROVIDE 
INDEX TO SPRING MIGRATION 1963 
By Mrs. Isabel B. Wasson 
ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS bird migrations closely from year to year 
finds that each migration has a unique pattern with variations in time and 
size of “waves” and abundance or scarcity of species. This spring brought 
the most spectacular migration to the Chicago area since 1956. 
Marguerite Shawvan, who lives with me, and I have discovered that 
watching the birds at the dripping bird baths in our back yard in River 
Forest gives a good index to the perching bird migration on the whole 
west side of the Chicago area. Our observations this year covered more 
hours and contained more complete records than ever before. 
The migration began abruptly May 3rd and ended just as abruptly 
May 27th. There were three well-defined waves: May 3 and 4, May 9 
and 10, and May 19, although each “wave” overlapped and birds did not 
become scarce before another tremendous wave arrived. 
