Field notes, v665
Page 197
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Cemetery Hill and Oak Creek road. May 8, 1942 7 to 9:30 Bob Livezey, Eldon Payzant, and Fred Evenden, Jr. Vulture Cooper's Hawk Western Red-tail Sparrow Hawk -- Bob White Pheasant Killdeer Mourning Love Barn Owl -- Found one in a nest in oak stub on Cemetery Hill. Rufous Hummingbird -- doing its love dives for a female. Crow Oregon Chickadee Slender-billed Nuthatch California Creeper Winter Wren Seattle Wren Robin--and well-developed young. Western Bluebird Ruby-crowned Kinglet Cassin Vireo Brewer Blackbird Lazuli Bunting Purple Finch Western-Evening Grosbeak Pine Siskin White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Oregon Junco Chipping Sparrow NM Flicker Gairdner Woodpecker Right's or Hammand's Flycatcher. Violet-green Swallow Barn Swallow Western Warbling Vireo Lutescent Warbler Yellow Warbler Audubon Warbler McGillivray Warbler Pacific Yellowthroat Long-tailed Chat Pileolated Warbler English Sparrow Meadowlark Willow Goldfinch Oregon Towhee Savannah Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Song Sparrow Got Red Fox this day. 149 Kitten's ears were in great abundance. Colubrina tobus? May 13, 1942 Brook Lane with Evan Halsey 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Robin English Sparrow Oregon Chickadee Yellow Warbler MacGillivray Warbler Green-winged Teal -- A pair of them on the Mary's River near Avery Park. Took to flight very rapidly. Anthony's Green Heron -- pair of them perched in the top of a snag out brook lane. They gave two different calls and still another when flushed to flight. Killdeer Bob White Valley Quail Ring-necked Pheasant Long-tailed Chat -- female near a pond out Brook Lane Cassin Vireo Olive-sided Flycatcher-- Saw two different individuals. Grayish patch down middle of breast was easily seen. One perched in top of fir tree gave a three-note call that was: 1. low 2. high and 3. a descending plaintive or mournful minor note. Flicker Western Bluebird Mallard Pine Siskin Audubon Warbler Junco Pacific Yellowthroat Lutescent Warbler Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Meadowlark Rufous Hummingbird Seattle Wren Purple Finch Slender-billed Nuthatch Black-throated Gray Warbler -- several of them. 150