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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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July 27, 1948. East Side Klamath Lake from Klamath Falls to Klamath Agency.
1250-1545. Clear and warm, occasionally wincy.
Eared Grebe - pair
Western Grebe - they float, sleeping, with head laid back on bake, toward rear.
One light gray downy young 1/5 grown, at least.
Pied-billed Grebe -
White Pelicans
Cormorants
Blue Heron
Bittern flying over marsh area.
Mallard
Vulture
Redtail Hawk
Marsh Hawk female or immature.
Osprey, flying over rocky point area near Modoc Point.
Sparrow Hawk
Coot
Killdeer
Wilson Snipe - flushed 4 of them.
California Gulls -
Forester's Tern - small tern, with deep swallow-tail
Casbian Tern - saw 3 of them. Much larger than Foresters and with a notched tail.
Mourning Dove
Pacific Nighthawks - 5 of them feeding.
Vaux Swift.
Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Little Flycatcher
Wood Pewee
Violet green Swallow
Bank Swallows
Barn Swallows
California Jay - 4 in brush on hillsides above the lake.
Magpies - several seen along the highway and edge of the lake.
Bushtits
Pygmy Nuthatch
Creeper in quite open yellow pine forest.
Robin Yellow-throat W. Bluebirds
Meadowlark English Sparrows
Yellow-headed Blackbirds feeding in sage. Also many in one marsh area - they
tend to nest in colonies, as do the Black terns.
Redwings - a few
Brewer Blackbirds
Western Tanagers
Purple Finch
Savannah Sparrows
Chipping Sparrows
July 27, 1948. Ft. Klamath (4120') 1600
Sparrow Hawk Robin Mountain Bluebirds