40 Abert's Towhee ** 6 Savannah Sparrow 1 Lark Sparrow ** 3 Chipping Sparrow ** 15 White-crowned Sparrow 25 hybrid flicker 1- ♀ Red-shafted face-head, very yellowish-orange wings Virginia Rail - 1- h.o.-LCB Brock Experimental Ranch 1045-1330 clear, warm, too windy 10-15 mph Turnley Vulture 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2- 1 dark phase Mourning Dove 2 Roadrunner 1 Annals Hummingbird 3 Red-naped Sapsucker + 1 Coyles Flycatcher + ** 1-found two months ago by others. Bigger than pewee, smaller than kingbird; Verdin 1 chest all dark uniform brown, throat brown; wings all brown with two cactus Wren 2 indistinct wingbars. Bill noticeably large with very bright conspicuous Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 orange lower mandible (not yellow as in field guides). Face, head brown. Orange-crowned Oriole ** 1 head very crested in silhouette. Call a double "churr-churr" Audubon's Warbler 20 American Goldfinch 1 Lesser Goldfinch 15-Two birds singing incorporating other species calls: Rock Wren, Lawrence's Goldfinch, Lawrence's Goldfinch ** 10 Sparrow Hawk, Robin, Killdeer, House Wren. This is the first time I've heard Oregon Junco 15 Lessers mimic other species - previously I had thought Lawrence's Lincoln's Sparrow 2 were the only ones that did this. We made it absolutely certain that it was a lesser and not a Lawrence's that was singing. [2-18-73] Los Angeles Area: Santa Ana, Bolsa Chica, Anaheim Lagoon, Whittier Rq area Nature Center, Legg Lake, Eaton Canyon Nature Center, Fish Canyon Rd. 0715 - 1600 . Shum Sufel- Dr. L.C. Binford, Bonnie Bowen, Craig Curley, Legg Lake +Fish Canyon clear, calm, hot Eared Grebe 30 Western Grebe 5 Pied-billed Grebe 10 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 10 Loon (sp) - 1 - LCB Horned Grebe - 1 - LCB Least Sandpige - 10 - LCB Little Blue Heron ** 2-ad + imm. (Bolsa Chica Lagoon, ) - Adult: all slaty blue with brownish head, Snowy Egret size. Imm - plumage all white, greenish legs, bill pale at base and dark at tip - striking contrast. Bill much thicker at base and more rapidly tapering than Snowy Egret bill. Common Egret 10 Snowy Egret 20 Louisiana Heron + ** 2-Anaheim Bay - white belled, dawl breasted, white stripe up throat, extremely long, American Bittern 2 slender bills Gadwall 7 Pintail 35 Blue-winged Teal ** 1♂- Bolsa Chica - blue head with white face crescent Cinnamon Teal 85 American Widgeon 50 Shoveler 35 Lesser Scaup 50