May 18, 1947, Seal Rocks, Lincoln Co. - 1400-1630. Sctd clouds, warm. NW wind. Black Brant - a flight of 130-140 flying fairly high on their way north. Black-oystercatcher - a pair on some of the outer rocks. Ruddy Turnstones - a flock of 5 working the rocks at the water's edge. Western Gull - a few around Horned Puffin - found one dead, and washed up by the tides. Rufous Hummingbird - buzzing around some of the yellow trumpets of Twin-berry. Horned Lark - a pair on a fence by an [illegible] Barn Swallows - Bank Swallows - a pair had nesting hole in sand-stone cliff by the ocean Raven - a few here and there. May 20, 1947, "Poison Oak" Lake, Linn Co, 8-10 a.m. Clear and warm. Vulture Slender-billed Nuthatch Cooper Hawk sailed over Seattle Wren Bob Whites Robin Valley Quail Cedar Waxwings Pheasants calling Cassin Vireo Killdeer Lutescent Warbler Mourning Dove Yellow Warbler Vaux Swift MacGillivray Warbler Rufous Hummingbirds Black-throated Gray Warbler Kingfisher flying high over land Pacific Yellowthroat Flicker Long-tailed Chat Gairdner Woodpecker Meadowlarks Olive-sided Flycatcher Redwing Blackbirds Horned Larks common Brewer Blackbirds Violet-green Swallow Purple Finch Barn Swallows Willow Goldfinch Cliff Swallows Towhee Long-tailed Jay Juncos - paired Oregon Chickadee May 20, 1947, 12-mile Swamp, Bruce Station 1300-1615, clear and warm, NE wind. Blue Heron - one seen Bittern - Tom and Dave saw one Mallards - a few pair were seen, and also single hens. Tom and Dave saw one with young, and I found a recently vacated nest of dried rush stems, situated on the south side of a Spirea bush, at the base, in a solid stand of Carex. Green-winged Teal - one seen Wood Duck - flushed one pair, and they had nearly 1/2-grown young that couldn't fly yet. Lenght was about 10" or so. Later, I caught one of equal size, after a hard chase. The bird would run on the water, and if I got very close it would dive, and swim underwater for distances up to 15 feet without coming to the surface. The water was shallow and clear and I could see it using its nearly featherless wings as an aid in swimming, and it could see well under water, for it dodged vegetation growing ahead of it. Finally, it neared exhaustion, and I almost caught it, but it dove, and swam on, and then stayed down, and I tried to pick it up, but found that it was holding itself down by using the bill, and in order to pick it out of the water I had to break off the sedge it was holding in its bill. This bird was also about 10" long, and had well-developed claws on the toes, and the toe (hind) was partially lobed. Brownish coming in on the breast and shoulders, and the tail already had that "squarish" form, with the metallic coloration. Hooded Merganser - at least 2, and possibly 3 different females were seen in the area. One had 10 young, and another had at least 4 that I know of. I found myself in the middle of them, and the F was trying to decoy me away. When that wouldn't work she swam about in the open, with crest fully erected, and uttering a heron- like series of notes. As she swam back and forth, first one, and then another of the young appeared at her side, and followed her closely as she swam away.