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February 8, 1948
Kildeer common
Pheasants here and there
Sparrow Hawk
Hepati Hawk - pair
Mallards - px courting on long Tom
Ticker
Wilson Spike - must have flowned as least a dozen along the east side.
Kildeer - several live over, calling
Harsh Hawk - just one female seen in swamp that it flushed
Redtails - a pair circling over, and chasing each other.
Cooper Hawk
Green-winged Teal - perhaps 400 in the area. We didn't see them all today.
Blue Duck - at least 3 were seen. None in full plumage
Mallards - probably 3-400 seen
Canada Geese-mixed subpecies - not over 700 in the area.
Shovellers - a few, some were full-plumaged males.
Pintails - seemed to be more common than Mallards
Ruddy Duck - I flying over field
Much of water iced over
February 8, 1948 - Ice-mite Swamp, Bruce Station, Iowa Co. /to Ove\ Gold W 10-50
on poison oak berries)
Sparrow Hawks - 4
Mallards - 32
Shat-spinned Hawk I - ? Gilf I in field?
Pheasant - 8
Kildeer - 2
Robin - 4
Bluebird - 6
M. Bluebirds - 66
Woodchuck Warbler - I
Brewer Blackbirds - 100
And Return: 1445-1305', Ove\ION W 15-32 Gold, RW,
February 8, 1948
Pheasants - 8
Sparrow Hawk - 2
Bluebird - I
Robin - 4
Woodchuck Warbler - I
Mallards - 40
Shat-spinned Hawk I - I
Brewer Blackbirds - I
Kildeer - 36
Crow - I
Robin - 18
Sparrow Hawks - 2
Pheasants - 6
And Return: 1305-1255', Ice-mite Swamp, Iowa Co. / Ove\ Gold W 7-15
February 8, 1948
Sparrow Hawk
Burton Grouse
Robin
Golden-crowned Kingfeteze
Oregon Junco
Purple Finch
Rabbit