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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?