January 29, 1949, Nacimiento Dam Site, Camp Roberts, Nacimiento R. 830-920 a.m. Clear, calm, 28°F. Sparrow Hawk Valley Quail Mourning Doves Flicker, Monterey R-S. California Woodpecker Black Phoebe Horned Larks California Jay Yellow-billed Magpies W. Crows Dotted Canyon Wren Robin N. Varied Thrush Dwarf Hermit Thrush Western Bluebirds California Shrikes Audubon Warblers W. Meadowlarks Calif. Purple Finch San Diego Spotted Towhee Calif. Brown Towhee Western Savannah Sparrows Calif. Mockingbird 1064 Jan. 29, 1949, San Antonio River valley from W of Bradley to Jolon, 935-1015 Mostly on Hunter-Liggett Reservation W. Redtail Hawk Sparrow Hawks Band-tailed Pigeons - large flocks in the tops of oaks, and on the ground everywhere on plowed and stubble fields. In a strip about 1/4-mile wide on each side of the highway, we saw at least 2500 birds in 10 miles of road. Also noted that often the flocks were on the ground only under the scattered oaks. Warren Smith, the local warden has had to issue many permits to satisfy the ranchers who complain of their wrecking their crops. Mourning Doves - a few dozen California Woodpeckers California Jay Yellow-billed Magpies W. Crows Dwarf Hermit Thrushes W. Bluebirds California Shrikes W. Bluebirds W. Meadowlarks California Brown Towhees 1065 Jan. 29, 1949, Jolon- Summit of road S of Cone Peak - 1100-1215. Mostly along upper Nacimiento River W. Redtail Hawk Sparrow Hawk Mountain Quail - sev. small coveys Monterey Red-shafted Flicker California Woodpeckers exceedingly common California Jays W. Crows Yellow-billed Magpies very common Robins Dwarf Hermit Thrushes W. Bluebirds W. Meadowlarks Brewer Blackbirds Black-tailed Deer - 5 bedded down on grassy flats along the creek Gray Squirrel Quercus agrifolia Calif. Myrtle Umbellularia californica Alcer Alnus Montifolia Big-leaf Maple - Acer macrophyllum Yucca whipplei Eriodacton creasyfolium var. Rubus vitifolia Coulter's Pine conector Bracken Fern Petris aquilina Sycamore Platana Coffeeberry Rocemosa californica 1066 Jan. 29, 1949, Cone Peak road summit to El Camino Real (C.SH./#1) Sparrow Hawks Gast Stellar Jay Puget White-crowned Sparrows Monarch Sceloporus u. occidentalis Myrtle - Umbellularia californica Redwood - Sequoia sempervirens Coulter's Pine - Pinus coulteri Quercus agrifolia Big-leaf maple - Acer macrophyllum Giant Chain Fern Woodwardia radicans Ribes Lupinus (purple) Yucca whipplei Rhus diversiloba Baccharis pilularis Acer negundo Coffeeberry Rhamnus californica Castelleja foliosa (salmon) 1067 OVER