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Marshall, 1947
San Francisco into Creek, 225' San Mateo Co.
3747-3749 along here is where I got
Got 3 birds here 7 specimens
along stream bed in 1940
between
2 arrows.
heard
2 more.
Searsville lake
Webb Ranch
This makes 5 birds/1000 yds.
Very far apart because stream
not flowing. Birds were only
at 3 places where there were persistent pools.
Here they foraged under blackberry or Symphoricarpos albus,
in rank growth also one on patch Typha Occasional
low willows, mostly large oaks & canals, Alders.
Maples
Stream is about limit of tolerance both for shade &
for dryness. Redwoods grow on NE facing hill as shown
last song sparrow pair about here
noted last spring Above this
point forest is too dark
for birds
from here down to coast
stream is in open unforest ed co.
& has rich wide growth of
willows supporting several
pairs (in width) (more than
a single column)
Martins Beach
Seaside Chaparral, mouth Tunitas Creek San Mateo Co. (See half-
Pacific Ocean
moon Bay quadrangle.)
Birds only on N-facing hollows close
to sea level where moist enough to make good growth.
with Nuttall Sparrows (Wren-tit farths up hills), Yellow-throat,
growth is Eriophyllum, Eriogonum Baccharis, Hieraclenum, Soap plant, Saltz in hollows.
3820-3821 call here in Comm. Blackberry near hollows of creek. About 12
Birds heard here at dusk.
running water
Some in Salix here
3818,3819 3822-3827 call along here saw 4 more.; about
several heard in
12 bds total along coast for 900 yds. All within
dry Eriogonum-
25 yards of shore (sandy beach), one flushed from
Baccharis here.
beach itself. All these in predominat Eriophyllum which
get 4 or 5 ft high. Bds usually in more open growth with
bachelor, Hieraclenum etc. typical marsh seaside chaparral but so
far south that get delubed & dry (with Artemisia) on S-facing slopes.
Tunitas Creek permanent stream
San Francisco to Creek
San Mateo Co.
Santa Clara Co.
Collections Sept Oct '47 131.
(See Palo Alto quadrangle.)
Mudkipa