Field notes, v1541
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143 Fish Canyon Rd, n of Azuza (L.A. Co.) 1800-1900 clear, 0-5mph, hot Hilldeer 1 Mourning Dove 8 Costals Hummingbird 2♂ - 1♀ White-throated Swift 1 Rough-winged Swallow 1 Cliff Swallow 1 Californig Thrasher 1-ho. wrentit 1-ho Bewicull's Uren 1-ho Bellis Vireo ** ♀ 1 singing its (jumbled up song almost continuously but we only got Bullock's Oriole 2 glimpses of the bird as it remained inside dense riparian Brewer's Blackbird 5 thickets and did not even respond to taped song Brown-headed Cowbird 4 House Finch 2 Am Goldfinch 2 Brown Towhee 4 Song Sparrow 4 Dick Erickson, Joe Marlan, Chris Wilson 6-24-73 Lincoln Rd + Whitewater Rivermouth, N. Salton Sea 0545-0800 wamto very hot, clear, caln Eared Grebe 25 Western Grebe 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Snowy Egret 20 Cattle Egret 40 Rosegate Spoonbill ** 11 imm. or subadult - all at the end of the Whitewater Riverdike. Green Heron 1 Only one was all white - the rest were finish in the wings. Redhead 15 Spoon-shaped bill obvious and spectacular - just incredible birds Black Brant 2- molting birds, one still with white neck mark Mallard 1 Pintail 250 Green-winged Teal 2 Cinnamon Teal 25 Am Wigeon 2 Canvasback 1 Lesser Scaup 20 Bufflehead 1 molting ♂ - large white patch behind eye outlined in black below Ruddy Duck 300 and in front of eye. Blackish down nape into wings, back - white Am Mestrel 2 wing patch, whitish throat and side, Am Coot 500 Gambells Quail 6 Hilldeer 6 Dunlin 2- breed plumage. Black-bellies surrounded by white on sides and breast, Wilsons Phalarope ** 50 reddish back, grayish-striped head, white neck Marbled Godwit 1 Am Avocet 200 Black-necked Stilt 1000 Yellow-legged Western Gull 5 - immrs.