Field notes, v667
Page 515
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July 21, 1951, Pt. Lobos Park, S of Carmel, Monterey Co. Calif. 1430-1530PDST White Pelican - 2 white young with grayish head and black primaries.-Bird Rock. Brown Pelicans - very common, including many young on Bird Rock. Baird Bormorant-neats Brandt Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Black Oystercatchers- 4 Heerman's Gulls Herring Gulls Western Gulls Pigeon Guillemot White-throated swifts Red-shafted flickers Downy Woodpecker Stellar Jay California Jay Chestnut-backed Chickadee Pigmy Nuthatch Wren-tits Cassin Vireos White-crowned Sparrows July 22, 1951, Monterey Peninsula & 17-mile Drive, Monterey Co. Calif. Sooty Shearwater rs - 1,000's of them passing NE offshore, and 1,000's circling in concentration of gulls, cormorants, and shearwaters off Marine station, many on water. White Pelicans - 5 flew N past bird rock Brown Pelicans - very common Brand'ts Cormorants Double-crested cormorants - want hed strings of them come into Bird rock from NE. Notes threat of sea lions to nests of mud built@ on bird rocks. Surf Scoter Ruddy Ducks near Cypress Point Course. Red-tailed Hawk California Quail, with ½-grown young Sparrow Hawks Coots Black turnstones very tame Surf birds Willet Long-billed Curlews Heerman's Gulls Western Gulls Common Terns Forster Terns Band-tailed Pigeons Red-shafted Flickers Black Phoebe Stellar's Jay California Jays W. Crows Barn Swallows Cliff Swallows Chestnut-backed Chickadees Pigmy Nuthatches Robins Meadowlarks Brewer Blackbirds House Finch Spotted Towhee Oregon Juncos White-crowned Sparrows