STILLWATER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA? CHURCHILL CO.? NEVADA May 12, 1950 12:00 noon to 5:30pm With LeRoy Giles Trip afoot up east side of island chain running north from Navy Cabin. Around south ends of heron rockery and Swan Lake. Þence Thence to second/Island, second large island southwest of Swan and west of Tule Lake. Covered pond along west edge of this island. Then went around north edge of Tule Lake and back to car. Birds most heavily concentrated on Tule Lake. Looked for nests all the way by walking shoreline, BEXE both salt grass and desert edge. Found only one nest with all this looking. None of this covered on weekly census. PBG-NEST Western Grebe - 6 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Blue Heron - Didn't count, too many as ran onto edge of rockery. Discovered more to rockery than we thought. Snowy Egret - at rockery Night Heron - at rockery American Egret - at rockery White-faced glossy Ibis - Many around rockery BITTERN Bittern - flushed one. Mallard - 4 lone males, pair, flock of 5 with 2 male and 3 females. Total mallards - 11 Baldpate - 1 male Gadwall - 16 in pairs./ flushed Gadwall hen from nest in solid stand of Pintail - one pair ungrazed saltgrass. 10 eggs. Cinnamon teal - 17 pairs and 2 extra males. Total 36 Shoveller - flock of 50 on Tule Lake, 1 pair, lone male. Total 33 Redhead - 62 Ruddy duck - 5 Turkey vulture - / feet nest of 6 eggs in hardstem bulrush. Covered with Coot - 220 soaking wet bulrush. Embryos in eggs well along. Killdeer - 3 Opened egg thinking nest was abandoned. Spotted sandpiper - 1 at Tule Lake/ Also saw 1 on edge of Hunter's Drain on way out. Avocet - didn't count them but probably didn't see over 20. Marsh wrens - Horned larks - yellow throat - Brewers blackbird - Savannah sparrow - Song sparrow - Think I'm wrong here. Should be a killed grebe nest, as grebe cover nest with net material. 1581c 1581c