10 TH EAU Dw BoOiNS “BUG Bree 
I had found the bouncy owl with the long legs — in my excitement I 
couldn’t think of his name! 
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I’m sure I gave some of the non-birders in the park a few moments 
pause before my friends finally heard my shouts and we all sprinted back. 
Thank heaven the owl was still perched on the dumpings! We all had very 
satisfactory looks at him before the next truck load of dirt arrived and he 
took off. He did not fly far, as he was seen hours later in about the same 
area. 
When checking our lists at the end of the day, we found that including 
our interesting accidentals and the large concentration of hawks at Eggers 
Woods, we had in the neighborhood of 115 species clocked. Just a birders’ 
heaven kind of a day was May 6, 1950. 
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What Killed These Birds? 
While at the meeting of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and 
the Inland Bird Banding Association at Point Beach State Forest, Two 
Rivers, Wis., May 5-7, 1950, members had a chance to look at freshly 
killed birds. The sad occasion came on the afternoon of May 6, and phe 
morning of May 7, when 64 dead birds were picked up. 
During the afternoon of May 6, a very high wind was brewing with 
gusts up to 75 miles an hour. We may never know what killed the birds, 
as they were found all along a stretch of open highway, a distance of 6% 
miles, between Two Rivers and Manitowoc. This highway is along the edge 
of Lake Michigan, with the lake about 50 to 100 feet from the road. 
These birds must have been blown into and killed by one of three ob- 
stacles — four strands of high power lines, about one dozen trees, or pass- 
ing automobiles. Many of the victims were in good shape, while others were 
grease spots on the highway. With more than 6 million birds wearing 
bands, not one of the 64 picked up had a band. 
This killing seemed to be only in the one area, as the trip from Mani- 
towoe to Chicago on the afternoon of May 7 revealed only about six birds, 
about normal for highway killing. 
Most of the birds were small ones, with only two large ones. The list 
consists of 28 species: 
Bittern, 1; king rail, 1; mourning dove, 1; chimney swift, 2; yellow- 
bellied flycatcher, 1; bank swallow, 5; purple martin, 3; short-billed marsh 
wren, 1; catbird, 9; olive-backed thrush, 3; gray-cheeked thrush, 1; black 
and white warbler, 2; Tennessee warbler, 2; orange-crowned warbler, 2; 
Nashville warbler, 1; magnolia warbler, e myrtle warbler, 8; palm 
warbler, 2; ovenbird, 3; redstart, 1; meadowlark, 2; Savannah sparrow, 
2; Henslow’s sparrow, 1; chipping sparrow, 1; field sparrow, 1; white- 
throated sparrow, 2; Lincoln’s sparrow, 1, and swamp sparrow, 1. 
Karl E. Bartel, Blue Island, Ill. 
