December 13, 1953, Gray Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co. Calif. 10 - 2 p.m. Clear, calm, cool. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Blue Herons - 15-20 Common Egret - 2 Snowy Egret - 1 Black-crowned Night Heron-150-200 Least Bittern - 1 Common Bittern - 18-20 Canada Goose - Honkers - 25 - Lesser - 500 - Cackler -125 White-fronted Goose - 100's Lesser Snow Goose - 1000's Ross Goose - 2 Mallard - 150,000& Cinnamon Teal - 15-20 Green-winged Teal - 150-200 Pintail - 75,000-100,000 Baldpate - 30,000 Gadwall - 20 Shoveller - 15,000 Redheads - 9 Ruddy Duck - 25-30 Turkey Vulture - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 7 Sparrow Hawk - 4 Pheasant - 550-600 House Finches Spotted Towhee Vesper Sparrows Sandhill Crane -250-300 ---- Coots - 1000's Killdeer - 70 Gallinule - 9 Dowitcher - 60-70 Wilson Snipe - 7-8 Western Sandpiper - 15-20 Calif. Gull - 12 Mourning Dove - 4 Short-eared Owl - 2 Burrowing Owl - 1 Red-shafted Flicker - 3 Black Phoebe - 2 Say Phoebe - 1 Horned Larks Tree Swallows - 2 or 3 Scrub Jay Marsh Wrens Robins - 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglets - 15-20 Loggerhead Shrike - 3 Audubon Warblers - 40-50 House Sparrow Western Meadowlarks - 100's Redwings - Bicolored - 100's Brewer Blackbirds - 12's Cowbird - 3 Common Goldfinch Lark Sparrows White-crowned Sparrows Song- Sparrows December 19, 1953, Grass Lake, 5000' el, Siskiyou Co., U.S. 97. 1015 a.m. 75 Canada Geese, even tho lake mostly frozen over. Some still present on Jan. 2, 1954. Dec. 19, 1953, Calif-Oregon line to Klamath Falls, Klamath Co. Oregon. 1110-1130 a.m. Eared Grebes - dozens Canada Geese - small flocks Pintails - some Shoveller - 35 Common Golden-eyes - 30-35 Ruddy Ducks - 1,250 or more on river Marsh Hawks Sparrow Hawk Coots Dec. 19, 1953, Klamath Lake, Klamath Co. Oregon. 1130-1145 a.m. Pintails Shovellers Lesser Scaups Canvasbacks Common Golden-eyes Ruddy Duck Coots California Gull Black-billed Magpies Brewer Blackbirds Dec. 19, 1953 - U.S. 97 Jct. with Willamette Pass to ODell Lake, Willamette Pass, Klamath Co. Oregon. 1230- 1 p.m. Ravens - saw only 3 - Saw 2 in same area on Jan. 2, 1954. Dec. 19, 1953, Ponds on U.S. 99, just N of Eugene, Lane Co. Oregon. 2:30 p.m. Lesser Scaup - 45 Ruddy Duck - 3 Coots - 18 Dec. 19, 1953, 12-mile Swamp, Benton Co. Oregon. 3:10 p.m. Mallard - 12 pair, Canvasback-1M, Coots, Northwestern Redwings