Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:56:50 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 - 2/23/96- RBA
* Illinois * DuPage County * February 23, 1996 * ILDU9602.23
- Birds mentioned
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK AMERICAN ROBIN CEDAR WAXWING COMMON REDPOLL COMMON GRACKLE COMMON MERGANSER NORTHERN FLICKER GREAT BLUE HERON HOODED MERGANSER HORNED LARK LESSER SCAUP NORTHERN HARRIER NORTHERN PINTAIL RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK WOOD DUCK
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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 23, 1996 compiler: Jim Frazier transcriber: Jim Frazier internet: 76606.402@compuserve.com
This is the DuPage Birding Club Hotline for Friday, February 23, 1996 at 8:45pm. The last update was on the 16th.
From DuPage County:
A female WOOD DUCK was found at Hidden Lake on Sunday. A drake PINTAIL was found there earlier this week. On Sunday, several RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS were seen in the cattails.
A flock of BLACK DUCKS were at Blackwell on Sunday.
At Boundary Hill Park in Woodridge, a large flock of ROBINS and CEDAR WAXWINGS were found.
HARRIERS and ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS were still at Dragon Lake last weekend.
40 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS were seen flying over south Naperville on Sunday morning and a GREAT BLUE HERON was seen in south Naperville flying along the West Branch of Dupage River on Monday morning.
On Friday, a pair of COMMON MERGANSERS and three LESSER SCAUP were in the main lake at Four Lakes Village.
Last Saturday, on the eastern side of the DuPage Airport, several HORNED LARKS were found where the Prairie Path crosses Kautz Road. One ROUGH LEGGED HAWK was seen over the Prairie Landing Golf Course nearbye.
At Fermilab, last Saturday, the two female HOODED MERGANSERS were still in Swan Lake near the high-rise. FLICKERS were seen near the feeders by the Education Center on the far west side of the lab.
And finally, the Fishers have the honor of the first official GRACKLE sighting of the season. On Friday, they had GRACKLES and RED-WING BLACKBIRDS at their feeders in Downers Grove along with CEDAR WAXWINGS in the yard. They also had a lone REDPOLL in their yard on Thursday.
Here is the DuPage Big Year Report.
In the Gold class, the highest 3 counts reported as of this date were 59, 51 and 48. In the Silver class, the highest count reported is 25 In the Bronze class, the highest count reported is 30
The Illinois Ornithological Society annual meeting will be held April 19th through the 20th at the Giant City State Park Lodge in southern Illinois. For more information, please contact Dick Blewett at 708-851-5880 during the day and 708-980-3134 in the evening.
The DuPage Birding Club Hotline is now on the World Wide Web. The URL is http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jimfrazier/dupage.htm.
If you would like that address via email, send a message to
76606.402@compuserve.com.On Saturday, March 16. Kate and Jim Frazier lead a field trip for new birders. We will start at McKee Marsh at 8AM and go on from there depending on the conditions. NOTE - This is a trip for adult BEGINNING BIRDERS. We will be enthralled by Chickadees, Cardinals, Red-winged Blackbirds, Eastern Bluebirds, Ring-necked Ducks and Meadowlarks. So if you are new at this (or you know someone who is), please join us. For further information, call Kate or Jim at 708-406-1535.
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.
Here are directions:
The map coordinates given after each location correspond to the Chicago Tribune Chicagoland Map:
To get to the Fermilab feeders at the Lederman Education Center, enter Fermilab from the west side Pine Street gate. Continue for 0.7 miles. You will see the feeders along a parking lot on the south side of the road. (P-4)
The main parking lot of Dragon Lake Forest Preserve (also known as Springbrook Forest Preserve) is located in Naperville on Plainfield-Naperville Road south of 75th Street on the west side of the street. (R-6)
Hidden Lake Forest Preserve is located north of Lisle just south of the intersection of Route 56 and Route 53. It is on the east side of Route 53. To get to the location to view the river, walk north from the parking lot, across the rock bridge to the high point that overlooks the mudflat and river. (P-7)
Thank you for calling the DuPage Birding Club Hotline.
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