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Great Blue Heron: Seen 5 days; 2 on 11/6; total, 6. 
Canada (Goose: Seen 4 days; peak of 38 on 10/31; total, 104. 
Blue, Snow Goose: Seen 2 days; peak of 175 on 11/4; total, 205. 
Mallard: Seen 28 days; peak of 200 on 10/31. 
Black Duck: Nine days; peak of 20 on 11/1; total, 85. 
Scaup (both): More than 100,000 in 28-day period. 
Common. Goldeneye: Some 5,000 counted on 19 days. 
Bufflehead: Seen 20 days; peak of 40 on 11/11; total, 243. 
Oldsquaw: Peak of 900; total of some 4,000 in 21 days. 
Harlequin Duck: One seen on 11/27 (male) in Chicago. 
White-winged Scoter: Total count of 59 in 8 days. 
Surf Scoter: Seen 7 days; peak of 7 on 10/17; total, 13. 
Common Scoter: Total of 5 seen in 3 days. 
Dark-winged Scoter: Seen 8 days; peak of 10 on 11/11; total, 31. 
Marsh Hawk: Total of 25 seen in 8 days. 
Jaeger: Two seen on 2 days, Oct. 6 and 31. 
Herring Gull: Seen daily; peak of 2,300 on 11/21. 
Ring-billed Gull: Seen daily; peak of 250 on 10/31. 
Franklin’s Gull: Total of 21 in 10 days. 
Bonaparte’s Gull: More than 5,000 in 28 days. 
Little Gull: Total of 10 in 8 days. 
Black-legged Kittiwake: One immature seen in Evanston 11/13. 
Sabine’s Gull: One immature at Wilmette 10/19. 
Common Tern: Three seen on tnree different days. 
Caspian Tern: One on 10/17. 
Short-eared Owl: Total of 8 on 6 different days. 
Sandhill Crane: About 450 on one day, 11/6. 
Also seen: Gadwall, Pintail, Blue-winged Teal, American Widgeon, Shovel- 
ler, Wood Duck, Redhead, Ruddy Duck, Hooded Merganser, Sander- 
ling, Dunlin, Golden Plover, Black-bellied Plover, Killdeer, various 
passerines—all in small numbers. 
OTHER LATE FALL SIGHTINGS 
Eared Grebe: 11/27, Wolf Lake, Chicago. Very rare, late. LB, CC, JR, BT. 
Great Blue Heron: 12/26, Skokie Lagoons. LB, LCB, CC. 
Black-crowned Night Heron: 12/26, Skokie Lagoons. LCB, LB, CC. 
Pigeon Hawk: 11/2, Wilmette. LB, JR. 
Ferruginous Hawk: 12/24, west of Joliet. LCB, LB, CC, BT. (An adult 
light phase bird seen soaring low over-head. Very exciting!) 
Dunlin: 12/18, Chicago. HB. (Very late.) 
Little Gull: Many sightings through 12/4, representing 10 different individ- 
uals. 
Glaucous Gull: 12/24, Channahon. LB, LCB, CC, BT. 
Mockingbird: 12/9-12/24, Plainfield. LB, JR, LCB, CC, BT. 
Pine Warbler: 12/19,24, York Park. LCB, LB, CC, BT. With 2 Myrtles. 
Oregon Juncos: 1 on each of 10/11 (Fulton Co.), 12/6 (Lisle), and 12/19 
1 montanus, 2 mearnsi types. 
—Larry Balch 
Laurie Binford 
Charles Clark 
Howard Blume 
Jerry Rosenband 
Bill Tweit 
