February 21, 1953, Aransas Refuge, Aransas Co. Texas. Noon-3:15 p.m CST. Pied-billed Grebe White Pelican - 8 Blue Heron Snow Geese - ad. and imm. Blue Geese - ad. and imm. Mallard Black Duck ANAS RUBRIPES Mottled Duck ANAS FULVIGULA Bladpate Gadwalls Pintails Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Red-head Greater Scaup Turkey Vulture Black Bulture Cooper Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Krider's Hawk Ferruginous Rough-legged Hawk Marsh Hawk Duck Hawk - 1 seen Sparrow Hawk Caracaras common Sandhill Cranes - 47 Black-bellied Blovers Killdeer Long-billed Curlews Godwits Wilets Lesser Yellow-legs PISOBIAE BRIRDI Baird's Sandpiper along bay Sanderlings Red-backed Sandpipers Dowitchers Forester Tern Royal Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern - 1 Mourning Dove Yellow-shafted Flicker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Carolina Chickadee E. Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Robin Hermit Thrush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Water Pipit Shrike Starling Myrtle Warbler Meadowlark Browh-headed Cowbird Cardinal Vesper Sparrow Swamp Sparrow MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA near headquarters Lark Sarrows Slate-colored Juncos Chipping Sparrows Field Sparrows Feb. 21, 1953, Rockport, Arammas Bay, Aransas Co. Texas. 4:45-5:15 p.m CST. Eared Grebe - 4 Brown Pelican - 12 Double-crested Cormo ant Blue Heron - 40 Little Blue Heron - 5 Snowyn Egret - 2 Reddish Egret - 6 Baldpates - 250 Pintails - 3,000 Green-winged Teal - 20 Redheads - 800-1000 Merganser (prob. red-brstd) Marsh Hawks Caracaras Sparrow Hawk Sandhill Cranes - 18 Black-bellied Plover Long-billed Curlews - 18 Wilets - 7 Greater Yellow-legs - 40 Dowitcher - 200 Red-backed Sandpiper - 100 Herring Gull Ring-billed Gulls - 100's Laughing Gulls Franklin Gulls - 2 LARUS PIPICAN Forster Tern - 35 Royal Tern - 2 Black Skimmers RHYNCHOPS NIGRA raft of 250& on bar at edge of Gulf. Mourning Dove Yellow-shafted Flicker E. Mockingbird Shrike Cowbird - flock of 200 Greater-tailed Grackle 2242 2243 OUT OF US