Field notes, v666
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Fred G. Evenden, Jr. March 19, 1949, Tomales Bay, Marin Co. 1000-1200 15-20 Brkn, calm, warm. Common Loon Red-throated Loon Horned Grebes - some in full plumage. Eared Grebes - Western Grebes Pied-billed Grebes Baird's Cormorant.- common Farallon Cormorant - common Brandt's Cormorant - few Blue Heron American Egrets Black Brant - about 1500-200 in bay feeding on eel grass. Mallards Shovellers Canvasbacks - about 1500 seen Greater Scaups - 7 seen Lesser Scaups - about 3000 Buffleheads - 1-200 American Golden-eyes - adult M & F - 75-100 White-winged Scoters - common Surf Scoters - very common American Scoters - about 25 seen - uncommon Ruddy ducks - 2500-3000 Red-breasted Mergansers - 25-30 Vultures Sharp-shinned Hawk Sparrow Hawks Coots - 50,000 & California Gulls Western Gulls Glaucous Gulls Bonaparte Gull - winter plumage Rufous Hummingbirds common Monterey Red-shafted Flicker Black Phoebe Barn Swallows - about 30 seen. Ravens W. Crows Coast Bush-tits Ruddy Wren-tits (C.f. rufa) W. Meadowlarks Calif. Purple Finches in small flocks San. Fran. Brown Towhee -richly colored compared to other ssp. Not common Marin Song Sparrow - M. m. gouldii March 19, 1949, Inverness on Tomales Bay to Pt. Reyes, Marin Co. 1200-1245 Vulture Pinus muricata, myrtle, live oak, cypress, madrone, etc. Sharp-shinned Hawk Rufous Hummingbirds common on south slopes, feeding in Arctostaphylos. Anna Hummingbird - 2 seen - 1st I've seen - had to use Peterson on them ! Costa Hummingbird - 5 or 6 seen perched in tops of madrone, and pine, etc. Willow Downy Woodpecker on bishop's pine. Tawny Brown Creepers - paired up Ruddy Wren-tits Nicasio Bewick Fren (T. b. marinensis) singing Golden-crowned Kinglets Hutton Vireo Lutescent Warbler - ssp?