Field notes, v666
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March 20, 1949, Gualala to Point Arena, Mendocino Co. 0800-1000. 3 Brkn. cool Common Loon - on fresh water pond Western Grebe Farallon Cormorant Brandt Cormorant Baird Cormorant Canada Geese - 18 Vultures Red-tailed Hawk Sparrow Hawk Valley Quail - 45& in plow field - 3 lookouts. Western Gull Herring Gull California Gull Monterey Red-shafted Flicker Tree Swallow Raven Audubon Warbler WqMeadowlarks San Fran. Redwings Brewer Blackbird Cal. Purple Finch Pine Siskins - 125& Nuttall Wh-cr. Sp. Marin Song Sparrow Fred G. Evenden, Jr. March 20, 1949, Manchester to east over mtns. to Boonville, Mendocino Co. 10-1200. Pacific Loon Vultures common Red-tailed Hawks - 3 Sparrow Hawks Oregon Sooty Grouse (D.f.f.) - 2 calling. Coots Rufous Hummingbird Ravens Varied Thrush Western Bluebirds - scattered flocks Hutton Vireo - 2 calling from macrones San Francisco Redwings Calif. Purple Finches San Fran. Spotted Towhee Oregon Juncos - 2 or 3 small flocks Puget-Sound White-crowned Sparrows. Mendocino Co. March 20, 1949, Boonville/Cloverdale, Sonoma County on Calif. 28. 1220-1300 Vultures Cooper Hawk California woodpeckers in live oaks Black Phoebe along Navarro river Ravens California Plain Titmouse. March 20, 1949, Russian River at Geyerville, Sonoma Co. 1315-1330. Coot Kingfisher Tree Swallows Northwestern California Jay Audubon Warblers - 1st ones I have heard singing this year. Willows and cottonwoods (P. fremontii) March 20, 1949, Conn Lake, E of Rutherford, Napa Co. 1445-1500. Western Grebes - 2 Pied-billed Grebes - 50-60 American Golden-eyes - 2 Ruddy Ducks - 45 Coots - 300 Kingfisher Brewer Blackbirds March 20, 1949, Putah Creek Valley south of Monticello, Napa Co. 1530 Valley Quail - 17 Ravens and California Shrike March 20, 1949, Lake Washington, Yolo Co. W of Sacramento. 1710-1730. Ruddy Ducks - 10 Coots - 100 Ring-billed Gulls Calif. Bicolor Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Perhaps the wrong time of the day, or too many Sunday visitors to the lake, or perhaps they have all moved to the flooded lands of the Yolo Bypass to the west of the lake. Usually 1500+divers here.