Field notes, v665
Page 361
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Sept. 5, 1946, Taft Bay, 330 p.m. 9 Whistling Swans on bay at south end, very near the hwy. Blue Heron Mallard Pintails Green-winged Teal Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Cedar Waxwings plentiful. Sept. 6, 1946, Killam Creek, Tillamook Creek, 7-8- a.m. Red-breasted Sapsucker Coast Jay Crow Raven Chestnut-backed Chickadee Russet-backed Thrush Sept 6, 1946, Nehalem River at Hamlet, noon, Clatsop county. Cooper Hawk Kingfisher Flicker Gaircner Woodpecker Coast Jay Crow Winter Wren Willow Goldfinch Junco Sept 6, 1946. Wolf Creek Junction 3 p.m. Vaux's Swifts - many seen. Cedar Waxwings were common. Sept. 6, 1946, Seaside, Lewis & Clark Turn-around, Clatsop county. 7 p.m. Sooty Shearwaters - 1000's and 1000's of them were flying north, just beyond the breakers. They were going for at least 1 1/2 hours when I left. Huge "rafts" of them could be seen on the surface, too. Feeding, I suppose. Sept. 7, 1946, Ecola Park, Cannon Beach, Clatsop Co. 9 - 11 a.m. Western Grebe Farallon Cormorant Harlequin Ducks Surf Scoter American Scoter Black Oystercatcher California Gull Ring-billed Gull Coast Jays Hermit Thrush Pileolated Warblers White-crowned Sparrow Sept. 7, 1946, Short-sand Creek, Tillamook Co. 1 p.m. Chestnut-backed Chickadees Varied Thrush - adults and immatures. Ruby-crowned Kinglets Red Crossbills - dozens and dozens of them, very tame and curious. They were mostly young birds, I believe.