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experiment; although I had fifty small boxes about half the size of my 
standard bluebird box, I put up only fourteen of them. They were placed 
north of the Florence bridge on the Illinois River. I placed them in the 
overflow willows about thirty or forty paces apart. Last Monday I stopped 
to see what luck I had, and found that out of fourteen boxes, twelve had 
prothonotary warbler nests, most of them with eggs. The last had a wasp 
nest which kept out the warblers. I expect to put up the remainder of 
the boxes in the near future, although I may not get additional nests 
this year.” 
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Evanston Bird Club Hikes 
By Mrs. SETH C. LANGDON 
THE EVANSTON Birp CLuB, with Mrs. J: Benton Schaub as president, has 
always included in its program a series of bird walks designed to cover 
the spring migration during April and May. 
With the exception of two ‘trips this last spring, our walks were 
centered on a certain locality where each week we added to our list of 
migratory and resident birds. The Church Street Forest Preserve, a few 
miles west of Evanston, is a particularly favorable spot for bird observa- 
tion in that it includes a stream, a small marshy spot, meadow land, tall 
trees, undergrowth and a hawthorn and wild crab apple patch. On May 
17 several ruby-throated humming birds were feeding on the flowers of a 
large horse chestnut tree in the preserve. 
This last spring we decided to widen our study to include water birds. 
Hence our first trip took us to a lake on the Alfred L. Eustace estate, 
southwest of Barrington, where Mr. Eustace has for some time been 
feeding a large number of different kinds of migratory waterfowl. The 
plan of the Bird Club now is to make an early spring trip to the Skokie 
lagocns with the view to learning what water birds stop there. On the 
11th of last April several of us saw eight great blue herons at the edge 
of one of the lagoons. There were also grebes, mallards, coots and quite 
a number of lesser scaup ducks on the water. 
One interesting sight always included in one of our earlier trips is a 
large colony of black-crowned night herons that nest each year in a grove 
of tall trees on Austin Avenue just north of Dempster Street, a few miles 
west of Evanston. 
The final trip of the spring, at the end of May, is getting to be a 
tradition. We take a lunch and spend most of the day in Deer Grove 
-~Park. Usually by the end of May the migrants have largely moved on. 
This year, on account of rain, the Deer Grove trip was postponed until 
June 7. Though too late to get the migrants, we were well rewarded in 
seeing, among others, the following birds: green heron, black-crowned 
night heron, blue-winged teal, coot, black tern, black-billed and yellow-billed 
cuckoos, kingfisher, yellow warbler, prothonotary warbler, northern yellow- 
throat, red-eyed vireo, western meadowlark, dickcissel, grasshopper, 
Savannah and chipping sparrows and indigo bunting. 
