TWELVE MILE (MOFADDEN'S SWAMP) AT BRUCE, BENTON CO., ORE. Weather: Cloudy with showers. Warm Date: 14 Feb. 48 09:00 - 16:30. List includes birds on north ponds and all that could be seen from the road on the south pond. Blue Heron - A couple around. American Bittern - While eating lunch in the jeep on the road just east of the Muddy Cr. bridge noticed something in the road which looked like a paper sack that was open. Checked it with the binoculars and found it to be a bittern standing still with neck pulled in. A minute later it began walking very, very slowly and deliberately back into the swamp. The movement was so slow that the bird's camouflage was still effective even on the gravel. Eventually it went back into the swamp, but several minutes later I noticed it back in the road. This time it moved slowly toward the other side with neck stretched almost to a complete horizontal position. Just before it got back into the swamp, a car came along and at the last moment the bittern awkwardly took to the air. Canada Geese - Didn't notice any cacklers although there might have been some. There was four to five thousand in all which moved from the north swamp to the south swamp. Mallard - [illegible] around 200 Baldpate - one male Pintail - around 100. Green-winged Teal - Probably 4,000 or more altogether. During the morning for [illegible] some time the green-winged teal were kept in the air by a female marsh hawk which kept making passes at them. The passes were lazy like and the hawk appeared to be playing. Shoveller - About 150. Sex ratio equaled. Ruddy Duck - two or three. Red-tail - one hung around Muddy Cr. during the morning. Sparrow Hawk - two around the triangulation tower. Ruffed Grouse - Flushed a ruffed grouse twice in the oak and ash along Muddy Cr. It may have been the same bird both times. Ring-necked Pheasant - 6 males and 11 females in the field just SE of the triangulation tower. Flushed two males next to the duck cabin. The two sexes stayed apart, that is the flocks did not mix. Coot - around 100. Killdeer - one or two. Wilson's Snipe - only one. Flicker Say's Phoebe - On a fence post west of the cabin. Seemed like Eastern Oregon having this bird and the shrike in view at the same time without even moving my binoculars. Raven Oregon Chickadee - one flock Seattle Wren Tule Wren Robin Varied Thrush - one in the ash. Western Bluebird - scattered flocks. Golden-crowned Kinglet - one flock in the ash along Muddy Cr. Pipits - occasional individuals heard. Shrike Audubon Warbler - a few. Red-wing - only a couple noticed in the morning. Purple Finch Oregon Towhee, Juncos, Song Sparrow