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Weston
1946
Journal
January 5, 1946 - Berkeley to Stockton to Guzzy Island California.
8:10 a.m. the zoology 136 class left the museum of vertebrate zoology, Berkeley, for an all day field trip over toward Stockton. Riding in Dr. Miller's car are Mary Ramage, Wade Fox, George Lawrence, Francis Felice, Dr. Miller and myself.
The weather is clear after two days of rain. WE go out through Walnut Creek, past east base of Mt. Diablo and over to Byron. Two to three miles east of Byron we stopped near the bridge (Old River Bridge). Rafts of [illegible] and coots were to be seen on the flooded fields near by. Overhead a flock of 27 whistling swans flew [illegible]. Other birds seen around this point were: pintails, ruddy ducks, American egrets, American goldfinches, gulls sp.?, crows, marsh hawks. Off to the south a flock of 50+ geese (Canada?) could be seen but were too far off for identification. This first stop was at 9:45 a.m. WE then drove out along a levee down stream from the