71 3-27-73 Honey Lake area: 0530-1130 10-20 mph, cold, p.c. Peter Myers Horned Grebe 1 Western Grebe 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Canada Goose 100 Mallard 100 Gadwall 50 Erewhom Antelope 10 Pintail 200 Black-tailed Deer 20 Green-winged Teal 75 Black-tailed Jackrabbit 1 Cinnamon Teal 100 European Widgeon 1♂ - same place as yesterday American Widgeon 100 Shoveler 25 Redhead 50 Canvasback 4 Lesser Scaup 25 Ruddy Duck 50 Turkey Vulture 4 Red-tailed Hawk 8 Rough-legged Hawk 2 Golden Eagle 1 imm. Marsh Hawk 5 Sparrow Hawk 2 Sage Grouse "" 5♂- 4♀ - (Map to left in Field Notebook) - All males congregating on an open area (no sage) about 3/4 mile from Hiway 395 - visible from Hiway despite the distance. Approached to within 100 yards before they flushed. The display was really incredible. The cooing sound, produced by the grotesque posturing, thrusting forward and deflating enormous throat sac could be heard for hundreds of yards. Sage Grouse were surprisingly efficient in the air - they made flights of over one mile yards away from the left and the wingbeats were measured and powerful, not the buzzy pheasant-type of flight. Perhaps Sage Grouse need to cover much larger pieces of ground than other Galliformes. California Quail 1 Ring-necked Pheasant 5 American Coot 50 Killdeer 4 Long-billed Dowitcher 80 Rims-billed Gull 500 Red-shafted Flicker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Tree Swallow 250 Barn Swallow 5 Black-billed Magpie 30 Long-billed Marsh Wren 1 Sage Thrasher "" 3-singing Robin 5 Starling 300