Field notes, v666
Page 429
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March 27, 1949, Folsom Dam Site, westside, Sacramento Co. 1430-1700. Vultures Clear, warm, calm. W. Red-tailed Hawks Cooper Hawk Sparrow Hawk Valley Quail - about 3 small coveys Ring-necked Pheasants California Woodpeckers - paired, and hanging about tall digger pines. Willow Downy Woodpeckers Black Phoebes Tree Swallows California Plain Titmouse Pallid Wren-tit San Joaquin Bewick Wren Canyon Wren - in tumbled boulder canyon above dam site. Rdins Western Bluebirds - paired up, and around digger pines. Cassin Vireo - one feeding in live oak. Lutescent Warbler Audubon Warblers very common all over the area. W. Meadowlarks Evening Grosbeaks - 4 flew over low, calling Green-backed Goldfinch Sacramento Spotted Towhee paired and in territories Sacramento Brown Towhee Nuttall White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrows Modesto Song Sparrows. March 30, 1949, Garden Hiway from Sacto-Sutter Co. line to 1 1/2 mile nor th. 1030-1035. Mallard on flood pood Short-billed Gulls in field Int. Calif. Jay Vultures Monterey Red-shafted Flicker Yel-billed Magpies Sharp-shinned Hawk Violet-green Swallows W. Crows Red-bellied Hawk - pair Tree Swallows W. Robins Sparrow Hawk Barn Swallows W. Bluebirds Audubon Warblers Sacto. Spotted Towhees. March 30, 1949, Chico-Oroville, Butte Co.1430Q1500. Grassy hills. Little brush. Common Egrets Vultures Barn Swallows Whistling Swans - 3 in field pond. W. Meadowlark Marsh Hawk Calif. Bicolor Redwings Yellow-legs Band-tailed Pigeons March 30, 1949, Morris Ravine Reservoir, 1530, Butte Co. 9 Mallards on about 5 acres of water. Also 1 pair Lesser Scaups. Mr. Perkins, near Cannon Res., Butte Co. tells me that much use is made of the area in winter by ducks, geese, and swans. Mallards and wood ducks nest in the area. March 30, 1949, Yankee Hill, Butte Co. 1815. Oak woodland,(digger pine, too). Pheasants - 2 cocks in small meadow area near creek. Surprising to see them here at elevation of about 1400 feet.