Field notes, v1541
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53 Black-bellied Plover 1 Common Snipe 10 Long-billed Curlew 320 Willet 3 Greater Yellowlegs 15 Least Sandpiper 1 Dunlin 1900 Long-billed Dowitcher 3000 American Avocet 100 Black-necked Stilt 170 Herring Gull 16 Ring-billed Gull 4 gull (sp) 50 Rock Dove 55 Mourning Dove 11 Great Horned Owl 3 - nest with bird sitting on it at Los Banos Barn Owl 1 - pine tree at Merced Refuse Hdqts - incredible view Burrowing Owl Red-shafted Flicker 8 Black Phoebe 5 Horned Lark 12 - much vigorous singing. One male viewed closely from road with erect horns Tree Swallow 110 Rough-winged Swallow 2 Barn Swallow " 2 Cliff Swallow 3400 Scrub Jay 3 Yellow-billed Magpie 49 Common Crow 17 Long-billed Marsh Wren 37 Mockingbird 7 Robin 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Water Pipit 5 Loggerhead Shrike 23 Staring 110 Myrtle Warbler 2 Audubon's Warbler 22 House Sparrow 150 Western Meadowlark 190 Yellow-headed Blackbird 500+♂ Red-winged Blackbird 2500+ Tricolored Blackbird 50,000 - Santa Fe Grade Brewster's Blackbird 6000+ Blackbird (sp) 250,000+ - almost certainly Tricoloreds Brown-headed Cowbird 80 House Finch 35 American Goldfinch 1 Lesser Goldfinch 1 - Merced Refuse Hdqts Rufous-sided Towhee " Savannah Sparrow 125 Lark Sparrow 1