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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