Field notes, v667
Page 195
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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