December 8, 1949, Mendota Pool Area, Mendota, Fresno Co. 1030-1130 Eared Grebe - 1 Pied-billed Grebe - 3 Blue Heron American Egrets Black-crowned Night Heron 300 Bittern Red-head - 6 Lesser Scaup - 5 American Golden-eye - 2 Ruddy Duck - 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Coopers Hawk W. Red-tailed Hawk Sparrow Hawk Pheasant Sandhill Crane - 500-600 Coots - 300 Killdeer Wilson Snipe Kingfisher Red-shafted Flicker Black Phoebe Say Phoebe Ruddy Horned Lark Suisun Long-billed Marsh Wren W. Mockingbird Pipit Calif. Shrike Audubon Warblers Meadowlarks Brewer Blackbirds Western Savannah Sparrows Gambel White-crowned Sparrows Modesto Song Sparrow 1392 Dec. 8, 1949, Crane Ranch Refuge Site, Area B, Merced Co., SW of Merced. 1330-1515 PST 1393 Blue Heron - 2 American Egret - 5 Common Canada Goose - 3 flocks of 60-75. Lesser Snow Goose - 7 Mallard Pintails Green-winged Teal Red-tailed Hawks - sev. Golden Eagle - 3 Marsh Hawks - many ad M & F & imm. Sparrow Hawks - 2/mile Pheasant - 1 cock Killdeer Hudsonian Curlew - 3 with Long-billed Curlews - 25-30 Least Sandpipers and Dowitchers - 2 and Western Sandpipers 3 Mourning Doves - about ?/road mie - 85-100 seen. Ruddy Horned Larks Mockingbird - 1 Meadowlark Yellow-headed, Bicolor and Tricolor Redwings in one flock of 1500 or s. Purple Finches Lark Sparrows Modesto Song Sparrows