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Notes From the Barrington Bird Club 
The Barrington Bird Club was organized in September, 1926, 
affliated with the Illinois Audubon Society in 1933, and was active 
through 1935 with a membership of thirty-five. The principal proj- 
ect has been a bird sanctuary; the present location is owned by the 
Barrington Park Board, with the Bird Club in full charge of the plan- 
ning and management (permanence and protection are assured by the 
Park Board). The first planting of the hundred and eighty-nine 
shrubs has been about ninety-nine percent successful, the shrubs have 
thrived, made growth, flowered and born fruit and seeds, feeding what 
birds have come there this winter. Robert Plagge, a member of the 
Bird Club and a Boy Scout, has been appointed to place grain in the 
feeding stations and suet in the cages—additional funds for this proj- 
ect were raised at the Second Annual Lawn Fete, held on the lawns of 
the R. G. Plagge home Tuesday evening, August 13. 
Early last spring a bird house contest was held in the public 
schools of Barrington—pamphlets were in the hands of the room 
teachers who taught the principles involved, and the children were en- 
couraged to judge the houses themselves and guess which houses 
would win first, second and third places. 
Eight well attended meetings were held in 1935; three programs 
were devoted to identification and study, and two to conservation. 
There was one book review, “The Island of Penguins” by Cherry 
Kearton, and two programs were given on the ethical and cultural 
aspect of bird work. The club meets in the various homes, and field 
work, hikes, and outings are taken in the region near Barrington, 
where “bird people” are unusually welcomed and humored in all sea- 
sons and weathers. An unusual record locally is the Flicker that is 
wintering with Mrs. Donovan north of Barrington. Mrs. Pretzel’s 
greatest joy is the Tufted Titmouse she has in her yard while other 
birds observed are White-breasted Nuthatch, a pair of Hairy Wood- 
peckers, Downy Woodpeckers and numbers of Brown Creepers. This 
yard is four and one-half miles north of Barrington on the shores of 
Lake Zurich. Mr. and Mrs. Prentice are observing a flock of Pheasants, 
numbering from sixteen to thirty hens and five or six cocks. They are 
attracted to a corn patch adjoining the Prentice yard which is well 
within the city limits. 
Mrs. C. R. STOUT. 
On March 4, 1935, we were driving on route 72 near Davis Junc- 
tion when a flock of twenty-five or more Western Meadowlarks alighted 
in a field close to the road and broke into song. 
There were eight loons on Lake Zurich March 26, and about thirty 
ducks (Baldpate, Pintail, Black, and Mallard) in a small field pond 
near Barrington. Many Coots gather on the lake in early April, re- 
maining for a week or longer. April 7, nine species of ducks, a few 
Pied-billed Grebes, three or four Loons and about forty Red-breasted 
