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March 1, 1950, Kelseyville Reservoir area, Kelsey Creek, Lake, County, Calif.
1430-1615 PST. Clear, calm, and warm.
Mallards
Wood Ducks
Vulture
Valley Quail
Killdeer
Band-tailed Pigeons - 2
Mourning Doves - 14
Red-shafted Flicker
Black Phoebe
Violet-green Swallow
California Jays
Slender-billed Nuthatches
California Wren-tits
Western Bluebirds
English Sparrows
Western Meadowlark
Pine Siskins working a'dderw
Common Goldfinches
Green-backed Goldfinches
Spotted Towhee
Brown Towhee
Junco
White-crowned Sparrows
Goldenecrowned Sparrows
Song Sparrow
March 2, 1950, Clear Lake Highlands, Lake County, Calif. 735-745 PST.
Valley Quail
Coots on choppy water
California Jay Flickers
Slender-billed Nuthatch
Brewer Blackbirds
Lark Sparrows in open oak woodland
Juncos
Western Bluebirds
White-crowned Sparrows
March 2, 1950, Bear Creek, and Bear Cr. Valley from C.S.H.20 N to Gravelly Buttes,
Colusa County, Calif. 815-845 a.m. Clear, calm, cool./(SW of Leesville)
This area mostly chaparral, bare hills, and scattered digger pine,
and blue oak, with manzanita, chamise and scrub oak in chaparral growth.
Creek bed very grassy and meadow-like throughout most of course.
Blue Heron
American Egret
Mallard - 3 pair seen - one flew upstream ahead of the car at 35& m.p.h.
American Merganseys - 5M and 3F or imm. - 5M flew at least 1 1/2 miles upstream ahead of me
Sparrow Hawk Shrike
Killdeer Western Meadowlarks - flocks
Mourning Doves - 8 and 4 Redwings
Lewis Woodpecker - 2 Green-backed Goldfinch flocks
California Woodpeckers 2 chased the Lewis's Brown Towhees
Black Phoebe Lark Sparrows common
Say Phoebe Juncos
California Jay
March 2, 1950, Summit, Walker- Baldy Mtn. Ridge between Bear and Indian Valleys.
Colusa-Lake Co. Line, 2176' elev. Calif.
Vulture Red-shafted Flicker California Jay Wren-tit House Wren