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September 30, 1949, Willamette Pass Summit, Deschutes-Lane Co. Oregon. 7 a.m. 5200' elev.
Coast Stellar Jay Ravens Robins
Sept. 30, 1949, 12-mile Swamp, Bruce Sta., Benton Co. Oregon. 930 a.m.
Red-billed Grebe Coots - 5 Puget Sound Sparrow
dullard - 2M Tule Long-billed Marsh Wren Song Sparrow.
Vultures - 2
October 3, 1949, Huckleberry Hill, S of Beaver Creek, Lincoln Co. Oregon All day.
Pacific Loon - 1 winter plumage
Brown Pelicans - several - immature or winter plumage. common at Yaquina Bay, too.
Parallon Cormorants
Fairus Cormorants
Baldpates - no full males - 6 on Beaver Creek
Pintails - no full M - 3 on Beaver Creek
Surf Scoters - 20-25 feeding 100 yards beyond the breakers for at least 3 hours in a.m.
and in approximately the same spot.
Sharp-shinned Hawk
dilldeer - 2 on Beaver Creek Wandering Tattler - New Life-lister - Heterocelus incanus
Wandering Tattler Just one on rocks - no flight pattern seen - just grayish - 10&"
long. Very erratic flight - slim-looking. 3-4 syllable melodic note in alarm
flight. On rocky islands at low tide, near Seal Rocks.
Western Gulls
Herring Gulls
Sand-tailed Pigeons - 8-10 around cabin, mostly perched in tops of live and dead spruce,
and few in lodgepole pine. On Oct. 4 ceiling zero, R- and S 15-25 m.p.h. when
about 20 pigeons were perched in one spruce and 2 spruce snags from 8 a.m. till at
least 4 p.m. No less than 6 were seen at these perches during this time. Rain did-
n't seem to affect them.
kingsfishers - 2 over beach - (also 2 on October 5)
Chestnut-backed Chickadees - small flocks
Coast Wren-tit - one calling at 9 a.m. just before rain.
robin - in spruce and lodgepole area or areas.
Aleutian Savannah Sparrow - feeding on wave-washed rocks in tidepool areas, etc.
Oregon Juncos in lodgepole area - open below.
Song Sparrow.
October 4, 1949 - Ards Day!
October 5, 1949, Seal Rocks - 10-11 a.m., Lincoln County, Oregon
Brown Pelicans - 6
Parallon Cormorants - dozens
Surf Scoter - white forehead only, and feeding in shallow, rocky surf.
On on sandstone outcrop at head of surf were:
1 Black-bellied plover, 1 sanderling, and 1 black turnstone all in winter plumage.
Western Gull Seattle Wren
Herring Gull Robin
Coast Wren-tit Oregon Junco.
October 5, 1949, Alsea Bay, Waldport, 11-1120 a.m., Lincoln Co. Oregon
Common Loon Western Gull Golden-crowned Sparrow
Brown pelican Herring Gull Song Sparrow
Parallon cormorant Calif. Purple Finch (nearly high tide - no flats).