BIRDCNTR archives -- March 2001, week 2 (#16)

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:46:37 -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 12, 2001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

DuPage County, Illinois RBA for March 12, 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 12th, 2001 at 10:00pm. The last update was on March 5th.

Highlight birds included in this report are:

TUNDRA SWANS GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE SNOW GEESE BALD EAGLES ROSS'S GEESE HOODED MERGANSERS THAYER'S GULL SHORT-EARED OWL

Here are the reports:

One or two TUNDRA SWANS continued to be seen at Fermilab through Sunday. GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE are also being seen inside the ring and at the Buffalo Wallow. SNOW GEESE were seen on Friday. A BALD EAGLE, a ROSS'S GOOSE, HOODED MERGANSERS and lots of other ducks are being seen at Fermilab on Sunday as well. Another ROSS'S GOOSE was seen on Casey's Pond on Tuesday.

Probably the same ROSS'S GOOSE and a THAYER'S GULL were seen at McKee on Sunday.

A BALD EAGLE was seen at Pottawatomi Park in St. Charles on Friday.

A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen at Songbird Slough on Saturday morning.

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

The next field trip will be on Sunday, March 18 at 8:00am at Fermilab. Meet at the Red Barn just south of the first stop sign west of the Batavia Rd. entrance.

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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