October 21, 1952, Gray Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co. Calif. 0800-1000PST. Pied-billed Grebe White Pelican Cormorant Blue Heron Common Egret Bittern White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Mallar Baldpate Gadwall Pintails Green-winged Teal Shoveller Ruddy Duck Vulture - 50-75 on botulism birds White-tailed Kite - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - few Marsh Hawk Sparrow Hawk - 1 Pheasants Calif. Quail Western Gallinule Coots Killdeer Willett - 1 Dowitchers - 75-100 Red-backed Sandpipers Western Sandpipers Least Sandpipers Flicker Tree Swallows - 100's Marsh Wrens Calif. Shrikes Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Bicolor Redwing Tricolor Redwing House Finch Common Goldfinch Green-backed Goldfinch Bell Sparrow - just 1 seen in willows. Vesper Sparrows Lark Sparrows White-crowned Sparrows Affected by Botulism: White-fronted Goose adult Mallard - many Baldpate - many Gadwall -few Pintail - many Green-winged Teal - many Shoveller- quite a few Ruddy Duck M and few Pheasants - few Virginia Rail - Gallinule - few Coots - many Killdeer several Least Sandpiper - few Have picked 500-1,500/day off refuge - crew of 8. Worst on Hunter Lake, which is pumped well-water- 72° Oct. 21, 1952, Lake Washington, Yolo Co., W of Sacto. 3:15-3:30PST. Pied-billed Grebe - 4 Hérons - 4 Ruddy Duck - 1 For imm. White-tailed Kite - 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Pheasant - about 20 seen Gallinule - 2 Coots - 33 Red-shafted Flicker - 6 Tree Swallows - dozens Marsh Wren Audubon Warbler Meadowlarks Bicolor Redwings Brewer Blackbird Grasshopper Sparrows White-crowned Sparrows.