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Rock Island County, TRI CITIES — Davenport area. Dee. 27: 5:30 a.m. to 
5:15 p.m.; clear; temp. 4° to 27°; wind E, 8 to 15 m.p.h.; river 90% ice- 
covered, ground with 2 inches of snow. Total party-hours, 105 (24 on foot, 
45 by car, 36 miscellaneous) ; total party-miles, 544 (87 on foot, 507 by car). 
Forty-one observers in tweny-two parties: Steve Aupperle, Erma Blear, Lewis 
Blevins, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Cabor, Harry Carl, Allen Carlson, Larry Dau, 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dau, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dau, Robert Davis, Leo 
Doering, Dale Dickinson, Elton Fawks, Mrs. A. H. Fisher, Carol Frink, Mr. 
and Mrs. Jacob Frink, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gold, Mrs. Frank Gordon, Mrs. 
Ivan Graham, Dick Greer, Mrs. C. C. Hazard, Martin Johnson, Katherine 
Love, Mrs. Frank Marquis, Mary Lou Petersen, Peter Petersen, Jr. (Com- 
piler), Mr. and Mrs. Pete Petersen, Sr., Frank Rodl, Conrad Sindt, Everet 
Sprague, Kent Stewart, Urban Stratman, Joe Tracy, Norman Ward and 
John White. The Blue-winged Teal was identified by Norman Ward; the 
Goshawk by Elton Fawks; the Broad-winged Hawks by Jacob Frink; the 
Osprey by Mrs. Frank Marquis; the Varied Trush by Mr. Hazard; the Pine 
Grosbeaks by Walter Dau. 
*Rock Island and Mercer Counties, ILLINOIS CITY and MUSCATINE. (71% 
mile radius circle centered on Lock and Dam 16). Dee. 26: 6:45 a.m. to 5:15 
p-m.; clear; temp. 10° to 17°; wind W, 0 to 15 m.p.h.; river 75% ice-covered; 
2 inches of snow on ground. Total party hours, 32 (11% on foot, 20% by 
car); total party-miles, 311 (14 on foot, 297 by car). Eight observers in 
three parties: Allen Carlson, Larry Dau, Elton Fawks, Fred Lesher, Mary 
Lou Petersen, Peter Petersen, Jr. (Compiler), Frank Rodl and Norman Ward. 
Sangamon County, SPRINGFIELD. (7%-mile radius centered on city square, 
including Lake Springfield, Clear Lake, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Carpenter’s 
Park, Winch’s Lane, Chatham Flats and Sangamon River, same as last year). 
Water, 5%; river bottom, 15%; river bluffs, 5%; pasture, 20%; powland, 
40%; city parks, 15%). Dec. 27: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; clear; temp. 12° 
to 81°; wind NE, 10 m.p.h.; terrain covered with glaze of ice; lakes and 
river 95% frozen. Total party-hours, 31 (16 on foot, 15 by car); total 
party-miles, 162 (11 on foot, 151 by car). Nineteen observers in five 
parties: Dr. Richard Allyn, Maurice Cook, Tom Crabtree, Beatrice Foster, 
Vernon Greening, Katie Hamrick, Ellen Hopkins, Beatrice Hopwood, Al 
Kaszynski, William O’Brien, Opel Rippey, Edith Sausaman, W. A. Sausa- 
man (Compiler), W. I. Sausaman, Marie E. Spaulding, Nina Stutzman, Mr. 
and Mrs. Tom Taylor and Richard Ware (Springfield Audubon Society). 
Will and Grundy Counties, CHANNAHON-MORRIS-WILMINGTON. (All 
points within a 15-mile diameter circle centered at Carbon Hill; SW along 
Illinois and Michigan Canal, Illinois River to Morris, then on NE side of 
Illinois River to Kankakee River, then to Wilmington, covering many back 
roads; farm woodlots, 15%; river edge, 60%; plowed fields, 20%; cattail 
marsh, 5%). Dec. 27: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; clear to partly cloudy; temp. 
21° to 30°; wind W, 10 to 20 m.p.h.; light snow cover; large rivers open 
but steaming; ditches frozen. Total party-hours, 9% (5 on foot, 4% by car) ; 
total party-miles, 89 (9 on foot, 80 by car). Five observers in two parties: 
Karl E. Bartel (Compiler, but not on trip), Alfred H. Reuss, Robert Reuss, 
Paul Schulze, Gordon Smith and Roy Smith. 
EDITOR’S NOTE: The participants in this census and the one following compared their reports 
to eliminate overlapping. Where both censuses covered the same territory, the birds seen were 
omitted from this report and only the results from the Joliet group were published. 
