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April 19, 1951, Elkhorn Slough, upstream at hiway & RR crossing S of Watsonville.
Western Grebe
Blue Heron
American Egret
White-tailed Kite over bare hills Willets
Western & Least Sandpipers - 1000's
Marsh Wren
Cedar Waxwings
1025-1035PST
1898
April 19, 1951, Moss Landing, Monterey Co. Calif.
Brown Pelican
Farallon Cormorants
Blue Heron
Black Brant - 5- in bay.
Lesser Scaups
American Scoter - 2 offshore
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
American Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Coots
Killdeer
Godwits - 300
1035-1115PST.
Western Grebe
Willet
Red-basked Sandpiper
Western & Least Sandpipers
Dowitchers
Sanderlings
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Forester Tern
Common Tern
Marsh Wren
7- Redwing
Nuttall White-crowned Sparrow
1899
April 19, 1951, Lakes in Monterey, C lif.
Mallard - 120
Ruddy Duck - 34
Coot - 240
Killdeer
Western Gull
Herring Gull
Bonaparte Gull - 2
S.F. Redwing
House Finch
Song Sparrow
1140-1205PST.
1900
April 19, 1951, Pt. Pinos Drive, Pacific Grove, Calif.
Farallon Cormorants
Brandt Cormorants
Baird Cormorants
Brown Pelicans
Black Brant - 74 on white-sand beach below Asilomar. Others flying and 25-30
floating offshore opposite rocky points. Also feeding. Observed some
territorial behavior with those birds on white sand beach.
White-winged Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Coot
Killdeer
Hudsonian Curlews - 7
Black Burnstone
Surfbird
Western Sandpiper
Heermann's Gull - a few immatures
Western Gull
California Gull
Bonaparte Gull - several on Pt. Pinos.
Pacific Kittiwake - some adults and immatures sunning and preening on rocks
at edge of hiway drive. Saw 55-75 off Pt. Pinos, too.
Crow
Meadowlark
S.F. Redwings
Nuttall White-crowned Sparrows
1220-1250PST.
1901