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Dec. 6, 1947, Seal Rocks, Lincoln Co. 1030-1130, 12 ovc, cool, calm.
Farallon Cormorants
Brandt's Cormorants - Phil Dumas
Baird's Cormorants - Phil Dumas
Brown Pelicans - small group flying north, just offshore - Phil Dumas
Surf Birds - a flock of 40-50 of them feeding on wave-washed rocks with Black
Turnstones, and a few Aleutian Sandpipers Turnstones flushed lst. as we got within 25' of them.
Black Turnstones - about 20-25 in with (Surf Birds and Aleutian Sandpipers - flushed together)
Aleutian Sandpipers - saw at least 2 of them in with the flock of Surf Birds and
Black Turnstones on the wave-washed rocks, feeding. Markings distinct enough
to identify it readily when checked with Peterson's plates. Observed at 25' w/glasses.
Western ? Gull immature was feeding on a dead Cormorant which it had dragged
from the high tide line, to the low tide area, a distance of over 125 feet
Wren Tits - 3 seen in salal along the hiway by Phil Dumas
Song Sparrows
Dec. 6, 1947, Beaver Creek Marsh, Lincoln Co. 1130-1230 12 ovc, cool, calm.
Red-billed Grebe - 2 diff. ones observed
Blue Heron in wet field by the creek
Mallards - in flooded field about 75 present
Green-winged Teal - saw 3 different flocks, one of over 50 birds
American Mergansers - a couple on the creek
Coots - here and there
Stellar Jay heard
W. crows in field with the Mallards and teal, and when flushed, they lit in orchard.
Winter Wren came within 3 feet of 5 of us along the road
Red-breasted Nuthatch - heard
Tule Wren - several in the Fucus along the river
Golden-crowned Kinglets in coniferous forest
Ruby-crowned Kinglets - here and there in brush and woods
Sitka Crossbills - 2 flocks flying around, calling loudly
Song Sparrows in grass and Fucus
Dec. 6th - Ocean Waysides - 1240. (Lincoln Co).
Sanderlings - we spotted them in 2 large flocks, from the hiway, and when we got close
enough to see them, they were this species, but flew early.
Sandpipers - 2 other species, unidentified were in with them.
Ravens - 2 flushed perched on snag, near the hiway.