Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1877
    A swallow’s nest, built in the west corner of a window facing the north, was so much softened by the rain beating against it, that it was rendered unfit to support the superincumbent load of pretty, full grown sparrows. During a storm the nest fell into the lower corner of the window, leaving the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1855
    A French Paper has the following; “At Balaklava, every day, the bands of the garrison give concerts in the square. The birds, who know very well the hour when the musical soiree in the open air commences, assemble in innumerable multitudes upon the trees and roofs of houses. The first piece is heard in […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 11, 1922
Reptile Seemed to Have Small Chance Against the Little though Fierce Birds. Â Â Â Â We soon found that there were two sparrow-hawks about, and by the 7th of March it seemed evident that they were mated and were considering the locality as a summer residence. Â Â Â Â We now saw them almost daily, and the perfect domestic […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 30, 1874
    We can tell you an anecdote about the condor’s power of life. A miner in Chili, a very strong man, once saw a condor enjoying his feast on the mountains. He had eaten so much that he could not fly, and the man attacked and tried to kill him. The battle lasted a long […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, February 15, 1912
    According to advices from the Caucasus millions of singing birds which every winter used to find a warm retreat on the southern slopes of the forest clad mountains of the Caucasus have suddenly been surprised by the intense cold and severe snowstorms while they were on their way from the north.     The slides […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 28, 1901
    Findlay, O., Dec. 28.-Thirteen thousand sparrows, weighing nearly two tons, were killed during the six weeks contest which ended yesterday. The winning side, twenty-five men in number, captained by Lew Brickman killed nearly two-thirds of the birds and was given a banquet last night at McComb by the losing side, captained by Isaac Culp.
Published in the lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 24, 1907
    At Libertyville Monday morning, a combat to the death was witnessed between two golden shafter flickers. The birds, both males, attacked each other in mid-air and fell to the middle of the street fighting furiously.     There they continued their combat quite unmindful of teams or pedestrins until one of them received a blow […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1897
    A woman in Minneapolis tells a curious story of bird life which shows a phase of sociability in a wild bird’s make-up. She has always fed the birds in winter weather, and never allowed them disturbed on her premises. She had a fine canary, which, in pleasant weather, always had a window from which […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 16, 1882
    The following story is another example of the truth that is stranger than fiction.     During a voyage made by the bark Gladstone London to Sydney, in Australia, on the 22d of October, while the vessel was in latitude forty-two degrees south, and longitude ninety degrees east, a seaman fell overboard from the starboard […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 3, 1922
    It is not generally realized how great an enemy the sea gull is to smaller birds. An observer ventures the opinion that the reason why small migrants invariably cross the sea by night is that otherwise they would be simply exterminated by gulls. Sometimes it happens that a change in the wind delays the […]