A coln   of blue herons have nested for many years in a tamarack swmp 
bordering London Marsh. Over 100 nests were counted in 1936. but how many

were in actual use could not be determined. 
I19258c       er   ..ed an Amri       egret at M. 
This  onpicof bird had not ben seen in th      egion fo may    ears   Thy

Twosmal witehernspreumaly  mmture 1ittle blues, were seen wit,'ru 
of Am   can egrets o August 3, 193.. 
Sadill cranes once passed over this reion regularly during iiation and 
\ occasionllystpe    to feed,j u   r.        baa seen none sinc   192.4.
  r red 
Seaver says that cranes once nested in the msh south of the Lae Mille depot.

The late Mr. M. Neupert told me that cranes once nested in the large msh
near 
De erf iel.d 
Passenger Pigeon. The last great pigeoni flight throg thi regi.on 
occurred in. 1871, the year of the huge nesting Lui *ent?&1-Wsni. Vi
~og 
,-"thoruhl covered most of th t~~        that the old timers WAm   
  bet 
from--esin in17, erWisa-a-Dls 
_   ttes that Armti    roats tho pgns travelled great distances to obtain

food.  The late Mr.,Nuprt told me that in 171 thousands of pigeons descended

on a recetlled corn field and pulled two or three bushels of sed. Corn 
is not plnted until after the pigeons are nesting. Did these pigeons come

of 
from the Wisconsin Dells "roost"?  If so, it implies a&   lng
range/at least 50 
miles. 
I fon no evidence that pigeons ever nested in. numbers near lavifl Grove,

the naetnesting being at Deerfield, 15 miles away. A small nesting, at the

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