52 Laurence C. Binford Ron LeValley Craig Curley Whitney McCloud Don Robertson Steve Smith Bob Andrews Bonnie Boven 98 spp (100) Los Banos refuge, Santa Fe Grade p.c., calm, warm, no fog 2-25-73 San Joaquin River Valley area: Rd. 140, Sandy Mush Rd, Neced Rfg Hdgts, 0745-1805 Eared Grebe western Grebe Red-billed Grebe White Pelican Great Blue Heron Common Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night Heron American Bittern White-faced Ibis Whistling Swan Canada Goose (Caciling) White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Blue Goose ** 1-9d. S.J. River x Hwy 140 - flew directly overhead with Snows and then was studied on the ground from 200 yds for 10 minutes. White head, dark breast and upper belly, dark wings with light striping as shown in field guides, back dark; may have had some Snow blood - lower back was white as was lower belly - at least whiter than shown for Blue Blue-winged Teal - 1 & LCB Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 - LCB 3 4 5 500 9 18 171 4 5 85 45-Santa Fe Grade 800 600 50 11,500 Goose in field guides goose (Ge) Ross' Goose Mallard Gadwall Pintail Green-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal American Widgeon Shoveler Ring-necked Duck Canvasback Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Turkey Vulture White-tailed Kite Red-tailed Hawk Swainson's Hawk ** Rough-legged Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Marsh Hawk Sparrow Hawk Ring-necked Pheasant Sandhill Crane Virginia Rail Sora Common Gallinule American Coot Killdeer 1500 200 10 1500 100 500 100 1000 2 & - Santa Fe Grade 30 4 1& 100 3 5 73 1 Sandy Mush Rd - very early - mostly dark with paler barring trimings, distinctive 8 shape - long tapering wings held slightly upwards 1 white upper-wing patches, pale tail base with rusty tip, all white underparts 39 46 3 320 2-1 seen 2-1 seen 24 9500 140