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Decoy Sale Raises $2,000+
The collection of decoys donated to the Club from the estate of fellow birder Craig Holderness earned the Club just over $2,000 at a two-day sale and silent auction hosted by the North American Decoy Collectors Show April 29-30, held at The Westin Hotel in Lombard. Many thanks to Joe Suchecki, who researched decoy pricing and had the collection evaluated, arranged for our exhibit at the decoy event, mustered the supporting team, and hosted our table. Other volunteers included Jane Barnett, Daphne Suchecki, Diann Bilderback, Steve Constantelos, Natalie McFaul, John Hebert, and Denis and Melissa Kania. Well done, team! All […]
Mini-Tutorial: Three Things To Help Birds
The DBC Board is pleased to present Mini-Tutorials on the DBC YouTube Channel. Denis Kania presents three things you can do in your backyard to help birds: provide shelter, food, and water. With a diversity of offerings-not all species want the same things-almost half of DuPage’s 268 bird species could be attracted to your yard. Many of these birds pass through during their vulnerable migration time: all the more motivation to help them. Shelter takes the form of houses and, especially, vegetation. Food-especially insects!-is critical. Again, this is often vegetation, so reduce turf lawn and add more native flowers, shrubs, […]
10th Anniversary Big Fun Morning June 5
Get ready for a Big Fun Morning as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Club’s first Big Day in 2012. We will bird from 5 am (if your team wants to do some owling) and quit at noon. We will bird at ONE site. This keeps us relatively “green” by not wasting fuel and keeps us outside and avoiding carpooling, in case there’s another variant headed our way. We’ll meet for lunch afterwards at Hidden Lake – we’ve got the picnic shelter reserved all day, and plan to have food arrive by 1 pm. How can you participate? There […]