April 4, 1949, Clear Lake, Lake Co. noontime. Calm, clear, warm. Western Grebes Coots Tree Swallows Pied-billed Grebes Violet-green Swallows Brewer Blackbirds April 4, 1949, Branscomb Reservoir Site area, S. Fork, Eel River, Mendocino Co. 1600-1830 P.S.T. Vultures Pileated Woodpeckers Robin Kingfisher Sierra Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Varied Thrush Monterey Red-shafted Flicker Dipper April 5, 1949, South Fork, Eel River from Leggett Valley, Mendocino County to Lyerville, Humboldt County. 0730-1215 PST. Clear, calm. American Mergansers - 1 full M and 2 others Vultures - 2 Osprey flying downstream at Miranda Rufous Hummingbird Tawny Brown Creepers singing Black Phoebe Ruddy Wren-tits Tree Swallow Robins Cliff Swallow Varied Thrush Blue-fronted Stellar Jay Lutescent Warblers singing.-common Ravens Oregon Juncos. Western Crows April 5, 1949, Mouth of Eel River, Humboldt County. 1430-1500 Farallon Cormorants Robins Sparrow Hawks W. Meadowlarks Monterey Red-shafted Flickers Brewer Blackbirds Black Phoebe Puget-Sound White-crowned Sparrows Chestnut-backed Chickadees Golden-crowned Sparrows Mendocino Song Sparrow April 5, 1949, Humboldt Bay - Eureka,Arcata,Manila, Samoa, etc. 1600-1850. Eared Grebe 4 Ovc - stratus, fairly calm, cool. Western Grebes 1,000's & 1,000's of shorebirds on bay shore tideflats! Farallon Cormorants Great Blue Heron Marbled Godwits American Egrets on tide flats Willets common Black-crowned Night Heron in bay flats Red-backed Sandpipers Black Brants - 1000's - perhaps 15,000 seen. Western Sandpipers Mallards Least Sandpipers Baldpates Greater Yellow-legs Pintails Pigeon Guillemot - 1 Shovellers - mostly M - full Kingfisher Lesser Scaups - few Violet-green Swallow Buffleheads - full. M and others Tree Swallow American Golden-eyes Barn Swallows White-winged Scoters - dozens Tule Long-billed Marsh Wren American Mergansers Northwestern Redwings Coots Western Meadowlarks Black-bellied Plovers - many - 50-150 seen Brewer Blackbirds Long-billed Curlews - 15-20 April 6, 1949, Confluence S. Fork, with Trinity River, Trinity Co. to Weaverville, Trinity Co. 0700-1030 a.m. Clear, calm, cool. Tree Swallows Northwestern California Jay Blue-fronted Stellar Jays Lutescent Warblers - singing - common 4-6-49 Vicinity of Lewiston, Trinity River, Trinity County, 1130 a.m. Sparrow Hawk Mont. Red-shafted Flicker Robins Sacto.Sptd Towhee Mountain Quail Black Phoebe Russet-backed/Thrush Modoc Song Sparrow. singing. April 6, 1949 E side, Sacto & Tehama Co., N of Jelly Ferry - 2 p.m. 2 Cormorants, 1 pt. American Mergansere 207 Canvasbacks