Field notes, v1541
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30 American Avocet 7 Common Snipe 4 Herring Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 50 Red-shafted Flicker 1 Belded Kingfisher - 1-GZ, DB Black Phoebe 1 Horned Lark 35 Common Crow 5 Water Pipit 75 Loggerhead Shrike ** 2 Starling 370 Audubon's Warbler 5 Western Meadowlaim 135 Red-winged Blackbird 450 Brewer's Blackbird 100 House Finch 35 Savannah Sparrow 115 White-crowned Sparrow 150 Golden-crowned Sparrow 5 Great Horned Owl 1 Tree Swallow ** 1 Los Banos refuge 1115-1450 p.c., very windy 10-25 mph S, warm Eared Grebe 2 Western Grebe 3 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Great Blue Heron 9 Snowy Egret 81 Common Egret 7 Black-crowned Night Heron 1 American Bittern 4 - scarce - much of the wet areas seemed drained White-faced Ibis ** 88 Canada Goose 2 Snow Goose 13 Ross' Goose 5 Fantastic close views, verifying our identification of a bird at Ano Nuevo in Jan - Snows have smooth pink bill bases, while Ross's show a dark sheath near base of bill. Ross' bill noticeably shorter, and less deep, but overall body size differs are not that striking even when they're swimming next to each other Mallard 10 Gadwall 8 Pintail 175 Green-winged Teal 45 Cinnamon Teal 110 American Widgeon 5 Shoveler 230 Ruddy Duck 50 Turkey Vulture ** 2 White-tailed Kite 1 Red-tailed Hawk 21 Marsh Hawk 19