Field notes, v665
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Dec. 6, 1943 - High cirrus, scattered to broken Temp. 30 - 35o F. Pendleton, Oregon O930 Western Meadowlark E. Sparrow Hawk Crow. Golden-crowned Kinglet Black-billed Magpie Duck Hawk Golden-Eagle, Immature Swainson Hawk Hermiston- Umatilla - 3 p.m. Mallard Pintail Crows (100's) Blue Heron Green-wing Teal Brewer's Blkbird (100's) Ravens Sparrow Hawk Black-crowned Night Heron Many Magpies, Umatilla to State Line Dec. 8, 1943 - Walla Walla, Wash. O330-0430 pm. Clear and calm. Mallard, Song Sparrow, Coot, Pintail, Baldpate Wood Duck Valley Quail, Flicker Sparrow Hawk, Gambell's Sparrow Pale Goldfinch Black-billed Nuthatch Purple Finch Golden-crown Kinglet Dec. 11, 1943 - 530 pm Walla Walla, Wash. Great Horned Owl seen on way to Air Base Dec. 12, 1943 - Walla Walla, Wash. 530 pm. Pigmy Owl seen by Joan in Maple tree on Boyer St, not far from Whitman Col. Dec. 18, 1943 - City Park, Walla, Walla, Wash. Mallards, Pintail, Baldpates Coot, Green-wing Teal, and i pair of Wood Ducks. Jan 1, 1944 - Walla Walla, Wash. Sierra Creeper, Golden-crown Kinglet Red-breasted Nuthatch Jan. 2, 1944 - City Park , Walla Walla, Wash. Townsend's Solitaire, Rocky Mtn. Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Mallards Baldpates, M Pintail M Wood Duck Coot Kingfisher Golden-crowned Kinglet. Jan. 3, 1944 - Walla Walla to Waitsburg - 0830 a.m. Meadowlark, Marsh Hawk, Flicker and Western Evening Grosbeak. Waitsburg to Dayton O900. Meadowlark, Magpoe, Sparrow Hawk. Central Ferry, Wash. 1030 a.m. Mallards and 1 pr. of American Mergansers. Colfax to Pullman - Magpie, Meadowlar, Ferruginous Rough-leg Hawk. A great deal of white up onto the head. Snake R. Clarkston-Lewiston Bridge l400. Mallards, Ring-billed Gull. Jan. 6, 1944 - 5 p.m. 835 Whiteman St. Walla Walla, Wash. Audubon Warblers - immatures. Killdeer at Air Base. Jan. 10, 1944 - Walla Walla 8 am Short-eared Owl; 1130 a.m. Flicker, Junco and Jan. 11, 1944 Walla Walla, Wash. Blue Heron in town. Mallard Jan. 15, 1944 - 1230 p.m. 835 Whitman St. A small flock of about l5 Golden-crown Kinglets and one Sierra Creeper working a fir tree in the yard. The tnmuk taken care of by the creeper and the branches by the Kinglets. The creeper would go up one side drop down and go up another part of the tree. When the creeper went to another tree the kinglets all followed. I have noticed this same action on other occasions. Jan. 16, 1944 - Walla Walla 4-5 p.m Mallards, Bladpates, M&F Wood Ducks, Flicker Coot, Junco, Sparrow Hawk, Chickadee, Golden-crowned Sparrow, Golden-crowned Kinglet. Jan. 17, 1944 - "alla Walla, Wash. Clear and 30 mph winds from SW. This a.m. at 8 as I was coming home, flight after flight of ducks, mostly mallards, and a few bladpates were winging their way overhead in a SW and westerly direction. They were in small disorganized flocks and also in large V-formations. There must have been 2-3000. About 10-1030 a.m. they all seemed to be coming back, flying in a NE and easterly direction. Perhaps they had all gone to a gravel bed along some river, to get their grit requirements. This same flight was reported to me 2 days previously.