146 Dick Erickson Joe Morlan Chris Wilson Joshua tree desert [6-25-73] Cima greg (between Cima and Freeway) 0530-0800 Am Kestrel 3 Gilded Flicker**† 1♂- red moustache, yellow wings - glimpsed only briefly in Joshua tree Mourning Dove 10 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 western Kingbird 24 Cassin's Kingbird 5 Desert Spiny Lizard - 1 Ash-throated Flycatcher 3 cactus Wren 5 Mockingbird 1 Bendire's Thrasher**† 7♀ all pale brown, some with faint spots on breast, others nearly clear-breasted; Phainopepla 1♂yellow eye, slightly decurved bill. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 1 Loggerhead Shrike 1 House Sparrow 10-gas station on freeway House Finch 30 Scott's Oriole 3 Baker to Furnace Creek 0900-1050 Mourning Dove 4 western Kingbird 2 Sayls Phoebe 1 House Sparrow 5-Shoshone White-tailed Antelope Squirrel - 1 Desert Iguana 9 Zebra-tailed Lizard 4 Desert Horned Lizard 1 Furnace Creek Ranch 1050-1215 110°, clear, calm, humid Mallard 1 teal (♀) 1♀- cinnamon-bw. Ring-necked Duck 1♂molting - black head with hint of crest, dark tip to paler bill ~while just Turkey Vulture 2before dark tip; dark back, neck, chest; gold eye; white sides with American Coot 6very white area before dark breast. Killdeer 3 Mourning Dove 10 Great Horned Owl 2 Sayls Phoebe 1 Tree Swallow 1- blue back, white underneath, eye in dark of head. Lucy's Warbler 6 House Sparrow 50 Side-blotched Lizard - 1 Red-winged Blackbird 2-♂+♀ Bullock's Oriole 1♂ Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Blue Grosbeak 2-♂+♀ House Finch 4 Common Raven 1 ? Yellowthroat 1-ho.