BIRDCNTR archives -- March 2001, week 1 (#13)

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:49:08 -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 March 5, 2001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

DuPage County, Illinois RBA for March 5, 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 Monday, March 5, 2001 at 9:30pm. The last update was on February 26th.

Highlight birds included in this report are:

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE SNOW GEESE MERLIN BREWER'S BLACKBIRDS NORTHERN SHRIKE TUNDRA SWANS VARIED THRUSH

Here are the reports:

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED and SNOW GEESE were seen at Fermilab over the last few days.

A MERLIN was seen at Blackwell on Thursday.

Two male BREWER'S BLACKBIRDS were seen at the Buffalo Wallow on Wednesday.

GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE and SNOW GEESE were seen at Nelson Lake on Saturday.

A NORTHERN SHRIKE was relocated along the entrance road of Greene Valley.

40 TUNDRA SWANS were seen at Fermilab on Monday in the fluddles north of Batavia Road and east of Eola Road.

The southern Naperville VARIED THRUSH has continued to be seen sporadically over the last two months. It was seen on Sunday and Monday at 8:30am and 7am respectively. 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.

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

The next meeting of the DuPage Birding Club will be on Thursday, March 8. This will be on annual auction - visitors are welcome. The book sale starts at 6:30pm and the auction starts at 7:00pm. Please bring any last minute donations by 6:30pm or contact Carl Strang at 630-393-7208.

The Big Year dinner will be on April 1st. Stay tuned for more information.

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. PO Box 925, Batavia, IL 60510-0925 630-406-5861 fax: 630-879-2034 cell: 630-452-5595 http://www.gadwall.com - jfrazier@gadwall.com
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