Field notes, v666
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Violet-green Swallows Tree Swallows Rough-winged Swallows Barn Swallows Cliff Swallows Crows Oregon Chickadee Tule Wren Seattle Wren Russet-backed Thrush Robin W. Bluebirds Cedar Waxwings Warbling Vireo Yellow Warbler Audubon Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Long-tailed Chat Pacific Yellow-throats - I clocked one for 1/2 mile at 30 mph. English Sparrows Meadowlarks Yellow-headed Blackbirds - no full adults seen at the NE Dike, but many young and females present. Some males nearly in full plumage. Many more at south end in cattails. Perhaps 100 altogether. Redwings - not very many around. Willow Goldfinch Savannah Sparrows Vesper Sparrows Song Sparrows. July 21, 1948, Willa mette River, 5 miles below Oregon City, 9-11:30p.m. (PLST), full moon, partly cloudy, calm. Blue Herons - a couple on the river, one would squawk off and on till midnight. Pintails - a flight of 11 went up the river about 9:45 p.m. Spotted Sandpipers - 2 on gravel bars along this stretch of the river. Called two different ways off and on till at least 11 p.m. ?X-Gull - unidentified flew up the river. (Also an immature at Albany 7-23-48) Nighthawks everywhere Vaux Swifts a half doz en flying at dusk above the river. Kingfishers - 4 in the are a, flying in and out of cottonwoods Crows - at least 50 flew into nearby cottonwoods, and finally left, before dusk, Russet-backed Thrushes calling until a little after dark,