Bill Principe Marc Chamberlain Joe Morlan Gary Zamzow Danny Boelter Steve + Karen Bailey Walt Hoening 29 [2-4-73] Hwy 99: Modesto to Merced 0700-0740 p-c, windy, no fog, warm Red-tailed Hawk 3 Sparrow Hawk 17 Killdeer 2 Rock Dove 115 Mourning Dove 2 Red-shafted Flicker 3 Yellow-billed Magpie " 15 Common Crow 73 Starling 90 Western Meadowlark 4 Brewer's Blackbird 65 Day totals hawks 187 goose 12,280 all birds 32,066 Merced on Hwy 59 to Sandy Mush Rd to Merced NWR 0740-1100 very windy p-c., 10-25 mph, cold Red-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Common Egret 16 Snowy Egret 1 Canada Goose ' 60 White-fronted Goose " 1700 Snow Goose " 1000 Mallard 10 Pintail 160 American Widgeon 10 Shoveler 200 Green-winged Teal 20 Cinnamon Teal 35 Ruddy Duck 50 Red-tailed Hawk 26 Red-shouldered Hawk " 1-adult Ferruginous Hawk " S - Sandy Mush Rd. ground squirrel colonies Rough-legged Hawk ' 1-dark phase - very dark wing-linings with pure silvery white primaries Golden Eagle " 1; and secondaries - matched Peterson's dark phase picture eating rabbit but left the carcass and flew off Bald Eagle " 1: mottled white underwings, no white at base of tail; when wind blew head feathers, completely white bases exposed. Eating a dead coot in a marshy field along Sandy Mush Rd Coyote 1 Calif. Ground Squirrel 25+ Black-tailed Jackrabbit 1 Much of the cattail habitat at Merced NWR seemed destroyed and most of the marshes drained - very little birdlife there. Marsh Hawk 46 Sparrow Hawk 6 Ring-necked Pheasant 12 American Coot 2000 Sandhill Crane " 165 Black-bellied Plover 75 Killdeer 80 Long-billed Curlew 4 Greater Yellowlegs 20 Long-billed Dowitcher 30 Least Sandpiper 30