Field notes, v667
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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