Field notes, v667
Page 301
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June 25, 1950, Heerman Drive, Monterey, Mont. Co. 430-6 a.m. pine woods with Baccharis and dwarf actostaphylos underneath. Some Rhus,& Diplacus Duck Hawk flew over, heading to sea Valley Quail - 1 covey Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Doves Caliope Hummingbird Monterey Red-shafted Flicker Willow Downy Woodpecker Western Flycatcher Southern California Jay Santa Cruz Chestnut-backed Chickadee Tawny Brown Creeper Monterey Pigmy Nuthatch Monterey Wren-tit House Wren Russet-backed Thrush - 1st bird to sing - many singing before daylight at 4 a.m. The numbers and frequency tapered off quite a bit by 6 a.m. Lutescent Warbler singing at 530 a.m. Calif. Purple Finches Common Goldfinches San Diego Spotted Towhee Pt. Pinos Oregon Junco Song Sparrow, Santa Cruz June 25, 1950, Moss Landing, Monterey Co. 730-750 a.m. PDST. Calif. Foggy. Brown Pelicans - 18 Blue Heron - 12 Black-crowned Night Heron - 11 Killdeer Willit Godwits Dowitchers Northern Phalarope - 1 male Avocet - 5 seen Western Gulls Foresterns Terns Least Terns - 4 California Horned Larks Bank Swallows Barn Swallows Tule Long-billed Marsh Wren Western Meadowlark San Francisco Red-wings Brewer Blackbirds Calif. Purple Finches Common Goldfinches