Field notes, v580
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ul DeBenedictis No 1 July 21 Garberville, Calif to Van Damme St Paul (alt west-facing) cup of grass and mud on rock face, open flat tailed white the rounded shaped nest of Cliff Swallow), Western Woodpecker, lesser Goldfinch, Rough-winged Swallows (nesting in holes in a east facing rocky-dirt cliff overlooking the river), Killdeer, Calif. Quail, [illegible] Kingfisher, Oregon Junco. Area is French's Hotel near Garberville on 101. White throated Swift at Hartly Creek. Cormorants on the rocks. Barn + Cliff Swallows along the road. Goldfinch on the [illegible]. Stopped in a canyon south of [illegible] went past Fort Ross. Lots of birds along a creek. Most were Song Sparrows + Allen Hummers, but also saw Black Phoebe, American Goldfinch, Orange-Crowned Wormbler, White-Crowned Sparrow, Hummeros, Bush-tits, Barn, Cliff, + Violet-Green Swallows, ?Western Flycatcher (an Empidonax, yellowbelly, dusky [illegible]), turkey vulture, crow, western Gulls by the ocean. Lots of Rana boylii in the creek along with Sliklebacks. Elvey saw a black oystercatcher. Farther down a knimout (very good tennant) produced few birds, mostly Gull + Cormorants in the water. 3 very inter- esting bird rock (?cormorants) betweens here and the lost stop. Flickers along the cliff. Stopped for lunch at Mac Kennicher State Park. Saw Caspian tern, white- Crown Sparrow, Turkey vulture, crow, robin, heard king- fishers. In a lake hundreds of transforming toads + toad tadps, and misseka thamnophis. 2 Ducks. Saw a Meadow lark along the highway. Later a Raven. Several