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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 ???