Jan. 4, 1950., Orland Irrigation area, Glenn Co. Calif. 830-9 a.m. American Egrets Sharp-shinned Hawks Red-tailed Hawks Marsh Hawk Sparrow Hawk Pheasant Killdeer Mourning Dove - 20 Red-shafted Flickers Ruddy Horned Larks Yellow-billed Magpies - common in fields - 100's W. Crows - dozens W. Bluebirds - small flocks Calif. Shrike Brewer Blackbirds Com on & Green-backed Goldfinches - Lark Sparrow Jan. 4, 1950, Norman-Princeton, thru Sact. Wildlife Refuge - Glenn Co.Cal 1335-1345 PST Canada Geese on the ground and flying over Lesser Snow Geese flying over Pintails - few seen. American Merganser - 5 Coots Long-billed Dowitchers - 6 Red-shafted Flickers Calif. Shrike W. Meadowlark Calif. Bicolor Redwings Tricolor Redwings Gambel White-crn. Sparrow Golden-crown Sparrow January 4, 1950, Gray Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co. Calif. 1500-1600 PST. Today the State and USF&WS made a waterfowl census of the refug Pied-billed Grebe Blue Heron American Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Whistling Swan - 60 Canada Goose - 200 LESSER CANADA GOOSE - 1,600 WHITE-FRONTEDGOOSE- 6,000 CANADWE GOOSE -3,200 Lesser Snow Goose - 26,100 Ross Goose - 100 Mallard - 480,000 Gadwall- 2,000 Baldpate - 360,000 Pintail ~ 800,000 Green-winged Teal - 3,000 Cinnamon Teal -500 sev. full males. Shovellers - 8,000 full males and females. American Mergansers-30 Ruddy Ducks 700 no full males seen. Vulutre feeding on jack rabbit. W. Red-tailed Hawk Marsh Hawk Sparrow Hawk Pheasant Sandhill Crane - 30 heard, but saw only 2 - 400.on + off the refuge before Xmas. Coots 1000's {2,600+} Killdeer Long-billed Dowitchers - about 25 Western Sandpipers - California Gulls - about 75-100 Burrowing Owl - one on side of road aike going out into refuge. Tame. Black Phoebe - sev. near water, and bushes for perches. Barn Swallows - as we were leaving the refuge - 4 flew in front of the Audubon Warblers - few car. Bicolor and Tricolor Redwing Blackbirds heading into the refuge from the Live Oak-Pennington area, with a flight line several miles long, zig-z/z/ag in shape, and many birds thick. 10,000's in line. About 4 p.m. Meadowlarks, Modesto Song Sparrows Gambel White-crown Sp.