Cemetery Hill, Corvallis, Ore. Feb. 28, 1942. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Broken clouds, sunny, warm, with slight breeze. Robin English Sparrow Oregon Junco White-crowned Sparrow Bush Tit Flicker Rusty Song Sparrow Crow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Oregon Chickadee Slender-billed Nuthatch Audubon Warbler China Pheasant 21 species total. Varied Thrush Western Bluebird Long-tailed Jay Seattle Wren Meadowlark Killdeer Western Redtail Hawk Towhee Mar. 1 1942 Newport and Yaquina Bay 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Windy, cold, cloudy, mist. Bay waters were very rough, tide was in. Robin Rusty Song Sparrow Killdeer Western Evening Grosbeak Brewer Blackbird Meadowlark English Sparrow Oregon Junco Winter Wren Coot Seattle Wren Glaucous-winged Gull Ring-billed Gull Surf Scoter California Purple Finch American Scoter -- 1 pair in the a.m. and a single in p.m. Orange bill very bright. White-winged Scoter-- lots of them. 27 of them in one group. Black Brant -- 16 of them in protected part of bay. Lesser Scaup -- 2 pair of them together about 20 feet away. Ruddy Turnstone-- small flock of them along rocks on jetty on way out to beach. Audubon Warbler Coast Song Sparrow Ruby-crowned Kinglets-- several of them in the pines along the beach. Oregon Towhee -- American/Mé/ Red-breasted Merganser--Swimming and flying in bay just below the bridge. No mistake. Western Grebe -- two of them in winter plumage. When looking down on them they seemed to have a ring of white all the way around their body in the water. Neck stripe showed as did the pale black cap. Band-tailed Pigeon--small flock of them in the pines and spruce near Newport. Pacific Loon -- two different individuals swimming in the bay, one under the bridge. It dove and came up a remarkably great distance away a little later. Here's one for the books to figure out a little later: Slightly smaller than Killdeer; Neck, chest were white or bright gray, Bill, tail, and legs were definitely black. Wings a darker gray with distinct black at the bend of the wing. These black wing marks were the outstanding mark when you first looked at the bird. It was feeding at the edge of the bay with 4 or 5 killdeers, so that the size comparison was not difficult. The killdeers scared more easily and when this bird did fly, it was a swift flier, zigzagged, dipped, and circled around. Its flight mannerism reminded me of the Wilson Snipe. 29 different species, total. Found dead Western Gull Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Glaucous-winged Gull. (I should have made a stomach analysis)