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Sandpiper with a useless leg was watched for some time. It carried the 
leg straight out in front and seemed to get along quite well. A Worm- 
eating Warbler spent several weeks this fall in the yard of Don Swensson 
of Moline. 
The Oct. 16th issue of a local paper carried an item about some 
hunters flushing eight or nine “‘White Swans”. A Mr. Carl Graham killed 
a female American Scoter on the Mississippi near Muscatine, Iowa. The 
bird was killed on the Illinois side of the river. Last year the same man 
killed a female King Eider Duck near New Boston, Illinois. Both birds 
are now in possession of the Davenport, Iowa Public Museum. 
Box 112, Route 1, East Moline, Illinois 
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Annual Meeting and Field Trip 
THE JOINT MEETING of the Illinois Audubon Society and the Tri-City Bird 
Club was held in the Moline-Rock Island-Davenport area on Saturday and 
Sunday, April 18 and 19, 1953. More than 45 persons (18 from the Chicago 
area) registered for the program at the Davenport Public Museum, and 90 
members and guests enjoyed a chicken dinner at the Watchtower Inn in 
Blackhawk State Park. Full credit for a highly successful and interesting 
meeting should be given to Elton Fawks, President of the Tri-City Bird 
Club; Frank McVey, Chairman of the Meeting Committee; and Mrs. E. L. 
Swain, Program Chairman and Field Trip Leader. 
The meeting began early Saturday morning with bird walks on Credit 
Island, Iowa. The program at the Davenport Museum began at 2:00 p.m. 
when Elton Fawks welcomed the Society in the name of the Tri-City Club. 
Mr. Lowell Miller, Museum Director, added his greeting, and then came the 
lecture program, as follows: 
IM seazic, TB. tay SSA a 0 Se a ee ee Introduction to the Tri-City Area 
(Paper by Thomas J. Morrissey) N 
ETIKIC SRL OC Os eee ee teeta ee es 2 ee ee ee eS Recent Changes in Local Bird Life 
(Paper read by a high school student) 
lalivaiay, (Raa ghee Ee es ie fhe ee ent Se Comparison between Tri-Cities and Chicago 
Nino a RONT ASHE CCl Gye mene ee ele eo eo ne eee Birds of the Bible 
Vine eOMmIOCTINO se ane Sweet ee) ee PCL On Retaining Our Amateur Status 
(Paper by Msgr. Thomas Feeney) 
Reena TRE a reRS CEN ye Bac ge eee eee en eR a cS Ds BL A Study of Owl Pellets 
SRY OT ASML OT LISS Gyo ene ee oe ee ee ee et ee eee Oe 2 Ee Bird Parasites 
Mrs. Walter Parton apes Oe. op ee eee Birding Along the Lake Michigan Shore 
NIE OOCMELL e Zan eee ten en eee ee ee Bigamy in a Cardinal Family 
lesa! Tab, Went ya SE ee ee ee 2 res Birding in the Chicago Area 
The group then adjourned to the Watchtower Inn, Blackhawk State Park, 
Rock Island, Illinois, for the dinner and evening program. Paul Downing, 
First Vice-President of the I.A.S., gave a welcoming speech, and Karl Bar- 
tel, President of the Inland Bird-Banding Association, spoke on the 
“Methods and Findings of a Bird-Bander.” Norwood Hazard concluded with 
reminiscences of “Birding at the Audubon Camp in Maine,” illustrated by 
his excellent color slides. 
