Field notes, v666
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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.