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Sept. 23, 1947, Avery Park, Corvallis, 1315-1330, NE7-10, 85°, -Ø/
Flicker Slender-billed Nuthatch Seattle Wren scolding Robin
Hermit Thrush perched in hazel thicket
Cedar Waxwings in ash by the river.
Audubon Warbler singing lightly
Junco on ground by the river.
Sept. 23, 1947, Corvallis-12-mile Swamp, 1330-1350, NE7-10,85°, -Ø/
Vulture - 3
Kildeer, 4
Barn Swallow - 100& in one group at Greenberry
English Sparrow - 4
Redwing - 1
Brewer Blackbird - 8
Purple Finch - 1 singing
Goldfinch sp? - 4
Song Sparrow - 1
AND RETURN, 1530-1600, 87°, NNE8-12, -Ø/
Kildeer - 2
Barn Swallow - 1
English Sparrow - 2
Meadowlark - 2
Brewer Blackbird - 26 (25 together)
Fringillid sp? - 4
Goldfinch sp? - 2
Sept. 23, 1947, 12-mile Swamp, 1350-1530, 86°& , -Ø/
Pica-billed Grebe - 4 immatures on one patch of open water
Cackling Goose - 1
Mallards - 15-25 on the area, no full males
Pintail - 1 (imm. or molt, etc??)
Green-winged Teal - 25-30 with the mallards and shovellers
Shovellers - 3 full males & 4 or 5 other birds
Vulture - a couple circled over
Redtail - 1 circling low over the field - not full adult.
Marsh Hawk - 1 female and at least 3 immatures cruising back and North over the
swamp, particularly along an ash-spirea fence row in which several adult and
immature pheasants were "holed-up". Sometimes they'd perch on bushes in the
middle of the swamp, or dive at a young pheasant, or flush a large group of
Redwings, but they didn't flush a mixed flock of ducks that they flew over,
and I don't understand that for the other morning the ducks flushed under
them as readily as the redwings, etc.
Sparrow Hawk - 1
Pheasants - up to 10 or so worked out of the aforementioned fence row into the
Daucus field east of the swamp, where we flushed them.
Coot - just 1 seen
Kildeer - up to 6 in a group and 2 or 3 such groups seen
Wilson Snipe - flushed 1 in south end.
Flicker - 1 seen
Barn Swallow - none present when we arrived, but as we left 25 or so were around
the cabin area.
Oregon Chickadee - 1 Robin - 10 or 15 in ash at south end. Pipits - a few
Meadowlark singing Redwings - over 100 mixed present Brewer Blkbd - few
Willow Goldfinch - about 30 seen in imm. or molt plumage.
Savannah Sparrow - we must have been at least 50 of them altogether scattered over
the area, for they flushed as singles and 2, 3, or 4, etc., everywhere.
White-crowned Sparrows - 2 or 3 seen in fence row
Song Sparrows - 2 or 3 seen.