Field notes, v667
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Jan. 5, 1951, Pardee Reservoir, Calaveras-Amador Co. Calif. 1255-1315 PST. Canada Goose - 103 About 6' of spillway island showing. Ducks - 800-1,000 Hooded Merganser - 7 Vulture - 3 (about 15 down the Mokelumne near Comanche. Red-tailed Hawk Bald Eagle harassing a flock of 18 coots in mid-reservoir. Only those coots on the pathway of the eagles flight low over the water dove, and the eagle, missing, would wheel and make another run. Finally it flew ½-mile to shore and lit. Red-shafted Flicker California Woodpecker Say's Phoebe Pallid Wren-tit Western Bluebird Phainopepla Audubon Warbler Green-backed Goldfinches Brown Towhee Lark Sparrows Oregon Juncos White-crowned Sparrows Jan. 5, 1951, Clay- to S. of Folsom, Sacto. Co. 1445-1540 PST. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Sparrow Hawk - 30-35 Red-shafted Flicker - 15-20 Say's Phoebe - 4 Mountain Bluebirds - 2 Pipits - 100's Calif. Shrike - 25-30 W. Meadowlarks - 100's Brewer Blackbirds January 12, 1951, Southside Park, Sacramento. 1205-1220 noon. N6-8,Cool, clear. Snow Goose - 1 Mallard - 7 pair and 4F or imm. Pintail - 1M Ring-necked Ducks - 35M & 23F or imm. Canvasback - 12M & 9F Coot - 28 California Gulls - 6 Audubon Warblers Brewer Blackbirds Song Sparrow January 19, 1951, Bay Shore Drive, Richmond-Emeryville, Alameda Co. Calif.930-940PST Western Grebes Canvasbacks Lesser Scaups - 15,000 offshore Western Gulls Herring Gulls California Gulls Common Terns in winter plumage.