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By W. Ann Hagans, Sterling 
ON DECEMBER 14TH, at 2:30 p.m., a Bohemian Waxwing was sighted by 
Mr. & Mrs. Max Hagans in their back yard. The bird has been feeding 
there daily since then, from 7:30 a.m. until about 3:00 p.m., eating rose 
hips directly below a window and swallowing snow from the limbs of an 
apple tree. Mrs. Harry Shaw photographed the bird through a window 
from a distance of four feet. She states that this is the first record of this 
species for this area since 19382. 
By Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Shaw, Sterling 
FOUR ADULT BALD EAGLES have been visiting Lawrence Park and Rock River 
for over a week. They were first sighted January 9th. New Year’s Day 
was very blustery and snowy, but we were driving on a gravel road north 
east of Sterling at sundown when some 300 to 400 Lapland Longspurs 
settled down on a snow-swept field close to us. On January 4th the Max 
Hagans saw several small groups of Lapland Longspurs near Woosung, and 
they were able to identify two Snow Buntings in their midst. During a 
blizzard on January 25th a flock of 75 Lapland Longspurs settled in a 
barren field fifty feet from us as we were nearing Polo from the southwest. 
Northern and Prairie Horned Larks accompanied this group. Also on this 
gravel road we saw 13 Gray Partridges. 
Snow Buntings: A flock of at least 50 was observed at length sixty-five feet 
from a gravel road just southwest of Polo on Sunday, February 8, 1959, at 
4:00 p.m. Horned Larks in good numbers were feeding with this flock of 
visitors from the north. In the same field some thirty feet closer to the farm 
buildings was a covey of 11 Gray Partridges. Pictures were taken through 
a telescope. 
At least 12 White-Crowned Sparrows have been feeding all winter on the 
corn put out for birds at the Green River Preserve south of Dixon. Two 
adults and 10 immatures have been observed there every day, and one 
adult was heard singing on our Christmas bird count, December 28th. 
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NEW LIFE MEMBERS 
THE I.A.S. IS PLEASED to announce the enrollment of a new life member: 
Mr. John D. Yondorf, 3720 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 13. This brings to 
nine the members in this exclusive class. Also, we are pleased to welcome a 
new sustaining member: Dr. Paul Meier, 13864 Madison Park, Chicago 15. 
Mr. JOSEPH L. Dvorak, 6125 W. Eddy St., Chicago 34, observed his 25th an- 
niversary aS a member of the Illinois Audubon Society by taking out a life 
membership. We now have ten members in this group. Not all of our mem- 
bers may know that the $100.00 life membership (as well as the $50.00 
sustaining membership) goes into our investment fund, which is carefully 
managed by an able investment counselor as a public service. The income 
from the fund is used to help carry on the work of the Society. Thus, such 
memberships may be considered as permanent contributions to the educa- 
tional and conservation programs of the I.A.S. 
