Field notes, v1541
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74 [3-30-73] Berkeley Mourning Dove Cedar Waxwing Scrub Jay Chestnut-backed Chickadee Robin Brown Towhee White-crowned Sparrow I-5 Los Banos -> Ft. Tejon Canada Goose 100->N s.of Bakersfield exit Pintail -temporary ponds along roadside -paired Cinnamon Teal Red-tailed Hawk American Avocet Mourning Dove Western Kingbird ** Common Crow Horned Lark Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird House Finch [3-31-73] Covington PkMt + Big Morongo Reserve 0630-0835 clear, calm, cool Kathy Alderson Turkey Vulture 6 Gambell's Quail 8 Killdeer 2 Common Snipe 1 American Coot 1 Mourning Dove 5 Great Horned Owl 1 Anna's Hummingbird 1 Costa's Hummingbird ** 1 Nuttall's Woodpecker 1 -sounded like Ladder-backed but head field marks of Nuttall's Red-shafted Flicker 1 Vermilion Flycatcher** 2 ♂+♀- fantastic views at Covington Park Black Phoebe 3 Tree Swallow 6 Scrub Jay 1 Mountain Chickadee 1 Verdin White-breasted Nuthatch -12 Common Bushtit 2 Bewick's Wren 2 House Wren** 1 Long-billed Marsh Wren 2 California Thrasher 2 one sounded like Calif. song but the other definitely sounded different- Robin 10 I was certain it was going to turn out to be a Cassin but the eye Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 seemed definitely dark and no distinctive reddish crissum could be seen Phainopepla 6 (although angle wasn't right anyway); also had faint above-eye line as Starling 20 shown for California