THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE 
Bees | AUDUBON SO CLET Y 
200! NORTH CLARK. STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
Number 31 September, 1939 
Gathering of the Martins 
By EARL G. WRIGHT 
FOR THE past two weeks telephone calls have been coming in at the 
Academy with inquiries about large flocks of birds gathering on tele- 
graph wires just before dark in various parts of the city. In one 
case the sight of so many birds was responsible for a traffic jam on 
Ogden Avenue near Lincoln Park. Of course, they were martins 
gathering for their annual trip south. 
I had known of only one place in the Chicago area where martins 
had been congregating in early fall for many years. This was in the 
Martins near Bahai Temple, Wilmette, Illinois. Photo by E. G. Wright. 
Vicinity of the Bahai Temple in Wilmette. On the evening of August 
8th, I drove to Wilmette and to my surprise found no martins in their 
