Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:46:51 EST Reply-To: Jim Frazier <76606.402@COMPUSERVE.COM> Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Central)"
<BIRDCNTR@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> From: Jim Frazier <76606.402@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: DuPage Co., IL RBA 2/5/96- RBA
* Illinois * DuPage County * February 5, 1996 * ILDU9601.26
- Birds mentioned
PURPLE FINCH SHARP-SHINNED HAWK COMMON REDPOLL PINE SISKIN BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD CAROLINA WREN HOODED MERGANSER SNOW GOOSE RED-BREASTED MERGANSER
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hotline: DuPage County, Illinois number: 708-406-8111 to report: 708-406-8111 coverage: Western, Southwestern suburbs of Chicago compiled: February 5, 1996 compiler: Jim Frazier transcriber: Jim Frazier internet: 76606.402@compuserve.com
This is the DuPage Birding Club Hotine for Monday, February 5, 1996 at 9:30pm. The last update was on the 26th.
This is going to be a very short report.
From DuPage County:
PURPLE FINCHES were seen in a yard in Downers Grove last Tuesday along with a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK.
A REDPOLL, a SISKIN and a COWBIRD were seen at one feeder in Naperville last week and Denis Kania's feeder, also in Naperville, still has REDPOLLS. If you would like to visit, please call him at 708-961-5364.
From Kane County:
On the 28th, a CAROLINA WREN was seen in a yard in Geneva.
A pair of HOODED MERGANSERS have been seen on the Fox River between Batavia and Arends Forest Preserve. BLUE GEESE have been seen between Geneva and St. Charles.
A RED-BREASTED MERGANSER was seen last Tuesday in the river by the Trolley Museum in South Elgin.
Here is the DuPage Big Year Report.
In the Gold class, the highest 3 counts reported as of this date were 55, 48 and 40.
Here is the next field trip of the DuPage Birding Club:
Saturday, February 10. Join trip leader Joe Suchecki as we tour the western suburbs looking for rare or unusual gulls. Possible species include Glaucous, Thayer's, Iceland, and Lesser Black-backed Gulls. The trip begins at 9AM at Greene Valley Forest Preserve and will include visits to Settler's Hill and Mallard Lake landfills. To get to Greene Valley, from Route 53 take 75th Street west to Greene Road and turn south. Follow Greene Road to 79th Street and turn west. You will see the Forest Preserve entrance on your left. For further information, please call Joe Suchecki at 708-369-5570.
The next meeting of the DuPage Birding Club will be on March 14.
The ever-popular DBC annual auction will be held on that date. More details will follow as we approach that date.
Social time starts at 7PM and the meeting convenes at 7:30PM. The location is the Faith Lutheran Church at 41 N. Park Boulevard in Glen Ellyn.
To get to the meeting at Faith Lutheran Church, take Roosevelt Road to Park Boulevard in Glen Ellyn. Go north on Park Boulevard for 2 blocks and you will see the church on the east side of the street. The parking lot and entrance are in the rear. The meeting is in the church hall on the lower level.
The All Points Bulletin as of December 24 includes:
any waterfowl that aren't Mallards or Canada Geese, any hawks that aren't Red-tails or Kestrels,
Common Snipe Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Horned Lark Brown Creeper any wrens, either kinglet, Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Northern Shrike Yellow-rumped Warbler Rufous-sided Towhee Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Fox Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Lapland Longspur Snow Bunting Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak
The All Points Bulletin is a listing of birds that might be around now and for which we'd especially like to get reports. Thank you for calling the DuPage Birding Club Hotline.
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