December 5, 1954, Folsom Res. area, PlacerCo. West side, N. Fk, Amer. R. 930-noon. NE of Hidden Valley. Clear, calm, warm. Cooper Hawk carrying red-shafted flicker Red-tailed Hawks Red-shafted Flickers California Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Nuttall Woodpeckers Plain Titmice Bush Tits Wren-tit - 2 Bewick Wren Rock Wren Canyon Wren Robins Western Bluebirds Ruby-crowned Kinglets - flycatching Audubon Warblers Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 House Finch Spotted Towhees Brown Towhees Green-backed Goldfinches Common Goldfinches Oregon Juncos White-crowned Sparrows Song Sparrows Fox Sparrow December 26, 1954, Sacramento Weir and small part, Yolo Bypass, Yolo Co. Calif. Clear, freezing, and N 5-35 mph. 7:30-10:30 a.m. Our portion of Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count - with GeneChristians. Common Egret - 2 Whistling Swan - 50 Canada Goose - 75 Lesser Canada Goose- 4000 Cackling Goose- 200 White-fronted Goose - 900 Snow Goose - 3000 Mallrd - 2000 Green-winged Teal - 100 Pintail - 90,000 plus! Baldpate @ 200 Gadwall - 2 Wood Duck - 1F Canvas-back - 3 Ruddy Duck - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 10 Marsh Hawk - 20 Sparrow Hawk - 8 Pheasant - 35 Coot - 20 Killdeer - 450 in plowed field W. Sandpiper - 75 Least Sandpiper @ 75 Dowitcher - 40 California Gull - 26 Mourning Dove - 1 Barn Owl - 1 Kingfisher - 1 Red-shafted Flicker - 30(1 chasing Sp.Hk) Downy Woodpecker - 1 Nuttall Woodpecker - 3 Black Phoebe - 3 Scrub Jay - 1 Yellow-billed Magpie - 20 W. Crow - 25 Plain Titmouse - 3 Bewick Wren - 2 Marsh wren - 1 Mockingbird - 1 Robin - 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 Pipit - 15 Shirke - 2 Audubon Warbler - 20 Meadowlark - 20 Red-winged Blackbird - 700 Brewer Blackbird - 200 Cowbird - 3 House Finch - 2h Green-backed Goldfinch - 8 Spotted Towhee - 20 Brown Towhee - 6 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Grasshapper Sparrow - 5 Lark Sparrow - 1M Oregon Junco - 50 White-crowned Sparrow - 1000 Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 25 House Sparrow - 1 December 26, 1954 - Bryte area, E. Yolo Co. Calif. 11a.m.-3 p.m. (New species for the day) Common Merganser - 24 California Quail - 35 Calif. Woodpecker - 8 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 wren-tit - 1 W. Bleubird - 25 Cedar Waxwings - 30 Orangecrowned Warbler - 1 House Wren - 1 Ring-billed Gulls - 15 Bush-tits - 5 Starling - 1 Willow-Goldfinch - 120 Nuttall woodpecker feeding on bracket fungi at 40'. 400 ea. of BBB and Killdeer w/300 gulls in plow-field