Field notes, v666
Page 335
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January 3, 1949, King City, Monterey Co, to Bitterwater, San Benito Co, 8 a.m. 30°F. N 6-10 mph. Green-winged Teal - 1 on nearly f frozen pool Red-tailed Hawk Red-bellied Hawk - used small earth hummock for perch, on barren hillside near summit. Marsh Hawk Sparrow Hawk Mourning Doves California Woodpecker Say's Phoebe California Jay Robin - flocs from nite roosts at King City at 715 a.m. Varied Thrush - several in pepper-tree thicket California Shrike A merican Pipits W. Meadowlarks California Purple Finches California Brown Towhees Lark Sparrow Puget-Sound White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Large-billed Savannah Sparrows Dipodomys leonensis jolonensis Juniper Blue Oak- Phor. villosum Digger pine Chamise Artemesia californica Button sage Baccharis pilularis Wild Tobacco January 3, 1949, King City- Jolon (Hunter-Liggett Milty Reservation).Monterey Co. 230 p.m. Sparrow Hawk Valley Quail - a couple of 50& coveys Band-tailed Pigeons in tops of live oaks Mourning Doves - common, but well-scattered Flicker, Monterey A-a - California Woodpecker Yellow-billed Magpies - 25& in one f-ock W. Crow W. Bluebird Cedar Waxwings - along the San Antonio R. W. Meadowlark Brewer Blackbirds - over 150 in one flock along river bottom Calif. Purple Finch House Finch Spotted Towhee Mullia White-crowned Sparrows. San Antonio 8 miles below Bryson - pastureland - sctd blue oak. Hills sctd. oak-chap. Coon, Possum River bottom - scattered wilbw, oak & cottonwood. digger pine at stream edge. River terrace - grain . Sctd oak & pine pasture. Chaparral on hills. 300& Sandhill Cranes on flats SW of San \J Canvasbacks - 100 on Arroyo Seco/ Lucas Lakes 1-2-49 Mallards may nest along river ???