February 6, 1947, Corvallis to Duck Trap Pond, 1 - 2 p.m. Brkn/10½ 50ºF. Mallards - a few on the pond, both male and female. Baldpate - I saw just one full plumage male. Pintail - just 3 or 4 of them. Green-winged Teal - pe rhaps there were about 40 altogether. Shoveller - approximately 17 full plumage males, with 14 others. Redtail Hawk - just one soaring over the area. Pheasant - flushed 6 of them from a brush patch under oak, near the pond. Killdeer - In the flooded field were 93 birds, on the muddied areas. Wilson Snipe - I flushed exactly 57 of them from an area 100' X 75 feet. Flicker - several in the oaks, and others feeding on the ground in fields. Lewis Woodpeckers - 2 of them in the tops of the oaks around the pond. They took off every few seconds in pursuit of insects, and did some fancy flying once in a while to catch their food. Horned Larks - a few were heard and seen in the fields on the way to the pond. Long-tailed Jay - in an old orchard - perched in a tree-top with a Flicker & Robin. Oregon Chickadee - quite a few of them working the oaks, and brush around the pond. Slender-billed Nuthatch - a pair working one oak silently. I heard no call notes. Seattle Wren - In some Willows in the pond. Not singing. Winter Wren - in the underbrush in the deeper part of the oak grove. Robins - not over a dozen seen all the way out. Pipits - From 20 to 25 in with the Killdeer and Snipe on the muddied field. Audubon Warblers - Individuals seen here and there, in tree tops, or flying by. English Sparrows - Meadowlarks - they seemed to be everywhere this afternoon, and most of them were singing from wire lines, treetops, or fence posts, and from the ground. NW Redwings - Equal M & F flocks seemed to be everywhere between the highway and the pond, feeding in the flooded pastures of the area. Calls common. Brewer Blackbirds - In small flocks on wirelines, fences, and in trees. Also some feeding with Robins on muddy ground. Purple Finch - three of them flew over, and lit in the top of a nearby Ash. Towhees - more or less evenly divided pairs in most brush patches. Savannah Sparrows - about 7 of them seen in pasture areas, and brush near road. Juncos - small and large flocks seen everywhere. Song Sparrows - perched and singing around the pond. February 6, 1947, Corvallis - Dixon Creek - N. Cemetery Hill - Corvallis 2-430 p.m. Sparrow Hawks - a pair of them flying about an old orchard. Pileated Woodpecker - in the deeper fir woods on the ridge above Dixon Creek. It gave its call, and I later heard it working. Stellar Jay - one scolded me from the woods. Long-tailed Jay - in the old orchard where the Sparrow Hawks were. W. Crows - Heard some calling, but did not [illegible] see them. Winter Wrens - singing, then scolding, and I would say they were paired, for I came across two pair of them, each's ticking close to the other. Ruby-crowned Kinglets - scattered individuals here and there. Golden-crowned Kinglets - a flock of 25-30 roving through the 2nd growth fir. Kept up a continual line of chatter with each other while doing so. W. Bluebirds - 9 or 10 perched on fences in open area. Brewer Blackbirds - put up a flock of over 200 from one field, and also saw other flocks of 70 and 53 birds each. Green-backed Goldfinches - came across 69 of them perched together on two wire lines along the road. Towhees - seemed to be paired and common wherever there is brush. Western Lark Sparrows - Just down the open slope north of Witham Schl, northwest of town I flushed a small flock of 5 or 6 birds taken to be Savannah or Vesper Sparrows until one of them gave a sort of buzzing note, and them I decided to check more closely to see if they were Larks. They were, for the outer tail feather tips were white, and the tail was generally black- brown. None had black & which head marks, for all were immatures. Before I left them, all had given the characteristic churr notes I learned in Idaho. Song Sparrows - seen a t. bird [illegible] verywhere I saw them.