April 27, 1941 Corvallis bird club to Newport for hike with Portland Audubon Society. Left Corvallis at 5:30 a.m. Cloudy. Newport at 7 a.m. Weather clear and that way all day. Birds recorded below were seen on hike, and to and from Newport and Corvallis. Chief people on the trip were Stanley Jewett, Ed Averill, Mr. Crowell, Elmo Stevenson, and a Mr. Harwell, Yosemite Park Naturalist for the past 20 some years. He could sure imitate bird calls near to perfect. Jewett knew his shore birds O.K. Had a grand time today ! Here's what we watched all day. Hike broke up at noon. Main rarities were the American Scoter, Brown Pelican, and Snowy Plover. Those underlined, I had never seen before: Mourning Dove China Pheasant Cassin Vireo Turkey Buzzard English Sparrow Purple Martin Vesper Sparrow Western Bluebird Green-backed Goldfinch Oregon Junco Willow Goldfinch Northwestern Redwing Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Winter Wren Audubon Warbler Red-shafted Flicker Western Robin Chipping Sparrow Violet-green swallow Band-tailed Pigeon Rufous Hummingbird Brewer Blackbird Stellar Jay (Coast) White-winged Scoter American Scoter Surf Scoter Seattle Wren Wren-tit Black Brant Killdeer Golden-crowned Sparrow Tree Swallow Great Blue Heron Puget Sound Sparrow Harlequin Duck Pileolated Warbler Western Gull Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Red-backed Sandpiper Western Crow Lesser Scaup duck Coot Buffle-head California Brown Pelican Horned Grebe Western Grebe Holboel's Grebe Lesser Loon Glaucous-winged Gull Pine Siskin Baird Cormorant Farallon Cormorant Bonaparte Gull Black Turnstone Rusty Song Sparrow Snowy Plover Lutescent Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler California Purple Finch Ruddy Turnstone (Lighthouse) Long-billed Dowitcher Gardiner Woodpecker California Creeper Western Meadowlark Long-tailed Jay 67 Species total. Scoters: White-wing has large white wing patches that show when it flies. "Surfer" has a white patch down back of head and neck. American has no color except for a yellow bill Cormorants: Baird's has a white patch on each hip which shows when flying Farallon is plain black-brown and has no white patches. Turnstones: Blacks show gay white design when in flight and are dark brown above. Ruddys show white not mixed with black in flight and are lighter buff - red brown and gray above. (In bay just north of Stilets) (Crowell saw them) Grebes: Horned has reddish on sides of head with crest behind. Other head color too. Western has thin white neck and side of head with black crown etc. Holboel's had white patch on side of face but rest was darker than Western. Sandpipers: Red-back is larger than others, ruddy back and black belly. Least is very small and light underparts. Hard to tell from Western. Snowy Plover: Seemed to be nesting. Small, and male clear cleaner white on body than female. Small body with long legs. Tree Swallow: Found 2 pairs that were building nest or had young. April 26, 1941 ----Anthony's Green Heron two of them at Avery's Park. 4:30 ;.p.m.