BIRDCNTR archives -- January 2001, week 1 (#16)

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 17:00:32 -0600 Reply-To: Jim Frazier <jfrazier@GADWALL.COM> Sender: "National Birding Hotline Cooperative (Central)"
<BIRDCNTR@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU> From: Jim Frazier <jfrazier@GADWALL.COM> Organization: The Gadwall Group, Ltd. Subject: DuPage County, Illinois RBA for January 4, 2001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

DuPage County, Illinois RBA for January 4, 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------- Location: DuPage County, Illinois Number: 630-406-8111 Coverage: Western suburbs of Chicago Editor: Jim Frazier Email: jfrazier@gadwall.com

DuPage Hotline Site http://www.gadwall.com/birding/

Official DuPage Birding Club site: http://home.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/BirdClub.html

For more Web links, see the end of this message. -------------------------------------------------------------- This is the DuPage Birding Club Hotline for Thursday, January 4, 2001 at 4:30pm. The last update was on December 31st

Highlight birds included in this report are:

VARIED THRUSH LAPLAND LONGSPURS BALD EAGLES HOODED MERGANSERS MUTE SWANS MERLINS HARLEQUIN DUCK PEREGRINE FALCON CAROLINA WREN

Here are the reports:

LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen at the Buffalo Feeder at Fermilab on Thursday.

The VARIED THRUSH continues to be seen at the yard in southern Naperville. The address is 27 W 141 96th Ct. and is just south of 95th. The feeder area in the backyard, where the bird has been seen, is not visible from the street.

2 BALD EAGLES, a HOODED MERGANSER, and 5 MUTE SWANS were found along the Fox River between Geneva and St. Charles on Wednesday.

A MERLIN was found at Hidden Lake on Saturday.

Another MERLIN was found in Kane County on Sunday southeast of Maple Park on Watson Rd between Keslinger Rd (on the south) and IL Rt. 38 (on the north). The site is west of Route 47. The bird was perched on a power pole approximately 100 yards north of Keslinger Road. An apple orchard occupies the east side of the road and it was found south of the first house on the west side of the road.

A female HARLEQUIN DUCK was found on the Fox river just south of the dam in South Elgin on Monday. It was not relocated. A pair of HOODED MERGANSERS and a MUTE SWAN were also present.

A CAROLINA WREN has been present in a yard in St. Charles all winter.

I have a report of a PEREGRINE FALCON on Wednesday at the intersection of Army Trail and Bloomingdale Roads. Another one was seen in Warrenville last week.

Thank you to everyone who called or emailed reports this week.

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The Big Year is over. Please forward your tallies and checklists to Jim Frazier at jfrazier@gadwall.com or mail to the address at the bottom of this report.

The next field trip will be on Sunday, January 7 at 7:30 am. This is the traditional January tour of the Des Plaines River between Romeoville and Joliet looking for waterfowl and various raptors. Meet at the Bolingbrook Menard's parking lot on IL-53, two blocks south of I-55 on the east side. Dress warmly.

The next meeting of the DuPage Birding Club will be on January 11 featuring author Joel Greenberg speaking on the "Birder's Guide to the Chicago Region"

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This hotline is on the Web. You can access the Chicago Birding Guide, hotline information and FAQ's, maps and transcripts back to 1994 at http://www.gadwall.com/birding

The official site of the DuPage Birding Club is at http://home.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/BirdClub.html

DuPage Birding Club field trip information is at http://home.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/FieldTrips.html

DuPage Birding Club meeting information is at http://home.xnet.com/~ugeiser/Birds/ClubMeetings.html

The All Points Bulletin (APB) list shows all of the birds that we'd particularly like to receive reports on. The list is available at http://www.gadwall.com/birding/hotline/apb.html

Thank you for calling the DuPage Birding Club Hotline.

Jim Frazier, President The Gadwall Group, Ltd. - Web, Email, and Ebusiness Strategies PO Box 925, Batavia, IL 60510-0925 office 630-406-5861 fax 630-879-2034 cell 630-452-5595 http://www.gadwall.com jfrazier@gadwall.com
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