BIRDCNTR archives -- January 2001, week 3 (#5)

Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:56:35 -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 16, 2001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

DuPage County, Illinois RBA for January 16, 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 Tuesday, January 16, 2001 at 5pm. The last update was on January 4th.

Highlight birds included in this report are:

LAPLAND LONGSPUR RED-SHOULDERED HAWK VARIED THRUSH MUTE SWANS RED CROSSBILL SAW-WHET OWL BALD EAGLE

Here are the reports:

At Fermilab, a LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen on the 7th at the Buffalo Feeders and two were seen along Eola Road on the 14th.

A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was seen at Hidden Lake on the 14th.

I have no reports of the VARIED THRUSH in Naperville since the 9th.

Three MUTE SWANS were seen south of the dam in St. Charles on the 7th.

A RED CROSSBILL and the SAW-WHET OWL were seen near the Four Columns at the Arboretum on the 6th.

A BALD EAGLE was seen on the 6th along the DuPage River near Naperville/Plainfield Road.

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 Saturday, January 20 at 9:30 am. This will be the Settler's Hill Gull Watch in Geneva. Join us any time after 9:30 am at the southwest corner of the Kane County Cougars stadium parking lot off Kirk Rd. between IL-38 and Fabyan Pkwy. The leader is Jonathan Simms at 630-792-0619.

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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. - IT, Ebusiness, and Email 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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