January 27, 1949, Santa Margarita River and Deluz Creek Reservoir Site, Camp Pendleton, San Diego Co., 2-430 p.m. Clear and warm, calm. Western Grebes - 15 Pied-billed Grebes - 3 Blue Heron American Mergansers - 25 White-tailed Kite - pair hovering over ridge-top, and perched in sycamore tops. W. Red-tailed Hawk ??? Red-bellied Hawk ??? - one perched in lower limbs of sycamore on west side of Deluz creek - was a rich rusty brown on chest, tail distinctly and heavily barred with black and white, and rusty-chestnut patch on back between wings, Wings seemed light brown, with white spots the lengthof the trailing edge. Sparrow Hawks Coots on O'Neal Lake and hospital grounds - 450 Killdeer Wilson Snipes - 4 flushed along the creek. California Gull Band-tailed Pigeons - several perched in tops of leafless sycamores in canyon. Road-runner, R-J. Flickers/common California Woodpeckers Say's Phoebes on grassy hills Black Phoebes along creek bottoms Southern California Jays American Crows - about 35 in Camp Deluz area. Plain Titmouse Coast Bush-tits Pallid Wren-tits Tule Long-billed Marsh Wrens singing Alaska Hermit Thrush - several in river-bottom willows California Shrikes several Western Bluebirds common Audubon Warblers - a few W. Meadowlark San Diego Redwings California Purple Finch House Finch San Diego Spotted Towhee California Brown Towhee Nuttall's White-crowned Sparrows Fox Sparrows San Diego Song Sparrows. Plants: Quercus agrifolia Quercus dumosa Typha latifolia Salix lasiolepis Opuntia occidentalis Rubus californicus Azolla foliculoides Scirpus (palludosus)? Plantago major White Sweet Clover Malotus alba Fumex conglomeratus Xanthium canadense Platanus Californica Hydrocotyle verticillata Cyperus forbesii Quercus Engelmannii Nicotonia glauca Echinocystis macrocarpa Ribes malvaceum var. indecorum Yucca whipplei Phoradendron Nemophila rotata Rhus diversiloba Artemesia vulgaris var. gnaphalodes Signs of: Hyla regilla - dark brownish Raccoon Gray Fox Coyote Bobcat Opossum Neotoma sp. in Cyperus forbesii deer - ? Cottontails