Field notes, v665
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25 Feb. 1946 - continued . I still see the NW Red-breasted Sapsucker almost every day on its pet Black walnut tree, rain or shine. And the Brewster's Screech Owl is still 361 "tootling" rapidly and often every night. March 1, 1946 - Pudding River, Woodburn, Oregon. The past several days therehave been Audubon Warblers around the house and singing 362 in the neighborhood trees. Saw them today, too. Also saw 8-10 Violet-green Swallows, first ones for the year, out along the river. Oregon Chickadee, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch, Robin, Varied Thrush, Meadowlark, Brewer Blackbird, Crow, a flock of 14 Mallards, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Fox Sparrow, Flicker Song Sparrows, Towhee, Winter Wren, Seattle Wren, Ruffed Grouse, Killdeer, Eng. Sparrow. March 7, 1946 - Woodburn, 2 Chipping Sparrows in our yard. - first for the year. 363 March 9, 1946 - Corvallis to Otis Junction, Oregon l-4 p.m. Western Redtailed Hawk Flickers Sparrow Hawk Western Crows, 50-100 Song Sparrows Sharp-shinred Hawk Violet-green Swallows -many. Blue Heron Mallards, Western Bluebirds Meadowlarks Juncos Brewer's Blackbirds English Sparrow Cal. Purple Finch Willow Goldfinch Streaked Horned Larks Killdeer. Pheasants Robin March 9, 1946 - Otis Junction to Kernville and Taft 4-6 p.m. Flicker Crows Whistling Swans in Taft bay. Brewer Blackbird Western Gulls Robin Glaucous-winged Gulls 365 Song-Sparrow California Gull Eng. Sparrow White-winged Scoter Blue Herons Surf Scoter March 10, 1946 - Nelscott - Newport and Yaquina Bay, all day. Song Sparrows Golden-crowned Kinglets (a pair) Dwarf Hermit Thrush, one in lodgepole below the cabin. It flicked its tail frequently, but it was a dull redbrown. Several bands of Chestnut-backed Chickadees roved thru this hil_side of lodgepole pine. They fed upon the staminate and fruiting cones of the pine. Crows Glaucous-winged Gulls California Gull Flicker Surf Scoters Western Gull Winter Wren - in woods east of hiway. Glaucous gulls, a few, White-winged Scoters Harlequin Ducks, one pair of them. Farallow Cormorants Herring Gull Kingfishers, Blue Herons and Coots, and Greater Scaups in Taft Bay. (Also Whistling Swans) California Murre, I found one alive, but heavily oil soaked. It was easily approached. Saw one later in the day on offshore rocks just north of Devil's Punch Bowl. Black Oystercatcher's on the rocks below us at Boiler Bay. We took good movies of a pair. Baldpates, Bufflehead, and Black Brant seen at Yaquina Bay. Also Tree Swallows.