Field notes, v667
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March 21, 1950, Gray Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co. Calif. 1610-1705 PST Pied-billed Grebe - 20 White Pelicans - 4 Blue Heron - 10 American Egrets - 40 Common Canada Goose - 300 Cackling Goose - 5 White-fronted Goose - 97 Lesser Snow Goose - 22 Mallard - 2500 Baloptes - 3000 Pintail - 450-500 Green-winged Teal - 1500 Cinnamon Teal - 300 pairs Shovellers - 400 Bufflehead - 8-10 (1F seen) Ruddy Duck - 50 Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Swainson Hawk Marsh Hawks - 4 Pheasants - dozens and dozens Coots - 750-1000 Killdeer Dowitchers - 65 Yellow-legs - 12 Avocets - 20 pairs Mourning Doves Red-shafted Flickers Tree Swallows Suisun Long-billed Marsh Wrens Western Meadowlarks California Bicolor Redwings - 1000's Tricolor Redwings - 1000's Yellow-headed Blackbirds - saw at least 100 full males as they came into roost in mixed flocks with the other blackbird species in the tules. Brewer Blackbirds Green-backed Goldfinches Gambel White-crowned Sparrows