August 7-8, 1953, Camp Harvey West, Upper Echo Lake, El Dorado Co. Calif. Wood Pewees common Olive-sided Flycatchers Tree Swallows Stellar Jays Clark Nutcrackers Mountain Chickadees White-breasted Nuthatches Red-breasted Nuthatches Robins Townsend Solitaire Warbling Vireo - 3 Audjbon Warblers common McGillvray Warblers Green-tailed Towhees - several Oregon Juncos + W or 900 2263 August 22-23, 1953, Lake Tahoe, S end (Pope Beach marsh and Al Tahoe-Argante's). Mallard - 1 not full male. American Merganser - 1 not full male Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Spotted Sandpiper - 1 along shore Calif. Gull - few Pacific Nighthawks - 4 at 9 a.m. Red-shafted Flicker Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers Williamson Sapsuckers White-headed Woodpecker Wood Pewee Tree Swallows Barn Swallows Cliff Swallows Stellar Jay Mountain Chickadees feeding on mule ears. Common Loon - 1 - fall plumage Western Grebe Red-billed Grebe - 6 in close flock on lake Parallon Cormorant - dozens Brandt Cormorant - off jetty Blue Heron - 25-30 Pintail - 37-40 Surf Scoter Vulture Sparrow Hawk Coot - 75 Black-bellied Flower - few Killdeer Black Turnstone - 7 on mud flats Long-billed Curlew - few Willet - many Least Sandpipers - dozens Red-baked Sandpipers Dovitcher - 40. Western Sandpipers - 100's Godwits - 100's Sanderlings - 100's Northern Phalaropes - dozens Western Gull Ring-billed Gull Red-breasted Nuthatches - 2 banded 2264 White-breasted Nuthatches Brown Creeper Pigmy Nuthatch - 1 in pine tops, calling Robin Mountain Bluebird Ruby-crowned Kinglets Yellow Warbler Audubon Warbler Yellow-throat Yellow-headed Blackbird - no full males. Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Cowbird - 2 full adult males. W. Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Cassin Finch Red Crossbill - several feeding on Mule Ear seeds. 2 males in top of pine. Common Goldfinch Junco Chipping Sparrow 2266 2267