March 26, 1947 Lake Lytle Whistling Swan - 3 birds feeding along shore at south end. Compared with Mute Swans which are resident on the lake. Lesser Scaup - 2M. 2F. Ring-necked Duck - 9M. 7F. Bufflehead - paired off Surf Scoter - 1M. Red-winged Blackbird Tillamook Bay Entrance Baldpate - small flock feeding on rocky beach edge. Barrow's Goldeneye - 1M. 1F. White-winged Scoters - 20 Glaucus-winged Gull Western Gull N.W. Robin Upper Tillamook Bay Farallon Cormorant Grebe - sp.? (Horned or Eared) Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Baldpate - large flocks feeding in grass at mouth of Miami and Tillamook Rivers. Scaup ? sp? Bufflehead Barrow's Goldeneye - 2M. 2F. Merganser - sp.? 1F. Netarts Bay Black Brant - that night while camped on the edge of the bay, we heard large numbers of Brant coming into the bay shortly after dark. March 27 - warm and clear, light westerly winds. Tillamook Co. Netarts Bay Loon - sp.? 2 Grebe - sp.? (Horned or Eared) Coast Heron Black Brant - flock of 200 out on a mud flat in the bay. Several strays feeding on flats along shore. Scaup - sp? Bufflehead White-winged Scoter Surf Scoter American Merganser-1M. at mouth of Trask River on Tillamook B. Red-Breasted Merganser - 3M. and 6F. first noted early that morning which were going through mating antics. M. would swim toward F., snap head down low against breast and then straight up in the air with a quick jerk. Sometimes they would raise the whole body from the water and then bringing the neck back down would prostrate themselves flat, the head and neck stretched parallel to the surface of the water. Occasionally the M. or F. would make a low coughing sound.