Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
June 13, 1947, French Prairie, near St. Louis - ll - 1230 noon.
Horned Hawks - abundant in this grassland prairie.
Violet-green Swallows common
Barn Swallows -
Cliff S wallows
NW Shrike - one perched on the top branched of a hawthorne in a fence row.
Pacific Yellowthroat -
Meadowlarks singing everywher e
Brewer Blackbirds very abundant
Lazuli Bunting - on wire lines at least every 100 yards or so.
House Finches - sining here and there.
Vesper Sparrows
Chipping Sparrows - pairs seen abundantly
Robin -
June 13, 1947 - Ecola Hills, between Salmm and Amity, l - 4 p.m.
Oak and briar-pagture - south hil_sides.
Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Redtail Hawk
Cliff S wallows over fielus
Long-tailed Jays in oak-scrub areas.
Slender-billed Nuthatches in the oak
Yellowthroat -pair had a nest in a S weetbriar patch, in one bush at 20" above
the ground - contained 4 eggs, well-along.
OregonTowhee - pair still feeding a 3/4-grown young bird, on the ground. It flew 50'.
Vesper Sparrows
Chipping Sparrows
Song Sparrows.
June 14,1947, S. Spurn MacDonald Fores t, l to 5 p.m. Clear and fairly warm
Vulture - several circling over the forest area.
Cooper's Hawk - one flew over on set wings, going down-wing.
Sooty Grouse - none heard hooting, but on the way out, one walked ahead of the car for
10 or 15 feet and flew-jumped up on the bank beside the road where it watched
us, and then non-chalantly walked off a few feet further, just like a chicken.
Valley Quail - in road on way up to the forest.
Mountain Quail - saw just two of them today.
Vaux Swift flew over
Pileated Woodpecker - one male working an old oak snag in a fir woods. Finally flew.
Western Flycatcher - saw a couple.
W. Wood Pewee - heard one.
Olive-sided Flycatcher - heard 3 different birds
Violet-green Swallows - a few
Coast Jay - several seen.
W. Crows flew over.
Winter Wren heard singing.
Robin - a few
Russet-backed Thrush - singing here and there.
Cassin Vireo seen
Hutton's Vireo heard just one
Yellow Warbler
Audubon Warbler
Western Tanager - calling everywhere - watched one beautiful male for quite a while.
Lazuli Bunting - male perched atop an oak, and singing lustily in open area.
Willow Goldfinches here and there.
Pine Siskins - a few
Towhees present
Oregon Juncos common, and many seemed to have nests.
Puget Sound Sparrows - pair c arraying food to young in nest in Poison Oak and Hazel
thicket near base of old fir stump, on top of bank beside the road - exposed.