October 13, 1949, Gray Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co. Calif. 930-1030 a.m. Eared Grebe - in trap Pied-billed Grebe in trap - bird of year, stripes on lead. White Pelican - 12 Farallon Cormorant 25 Blue Heron - 40 American Egret - 150 Snowy Egret - 12 Black-crowned Night Heron - 450-500. Cackling Geese - 150 White-fronted Geese - 50 Lesser Snow Goose - 25 Mallards - 75-100,000 Gadwall - 20 Baldpate - 20,000 Pintail - 150-175,000 Green-winged Teal - 3,000 Cinnamon Teal - 50-75 Shoveller - 100 Vultures - 20 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Marsh Hawk - 7-8 Sparrow Hawk - 3 Pheasants - 3-400 Coot - 25,000 Killdeer - 50 Yellow-legs - 50 Northern Phalaropes - 5 Avocet - just 1 Red-shafted Flicker - 15 Black Phoebe C. Mockingbird - 1 Calif. Shrike October 13, 1949, Irum Heller. Slough at elbow of "1004" Levee, Colusa Co. noon. Pied-billed Grebe Marsh Hawk Red-shafted Flicker Mallards Sparrow Hawk Ruddy Horned Lark Redheads - 5 Florida Gallimule W. Meadowlark Ruddy Ducks - 3-4 Coots Western Savannah Sparrow Vultures Killdeer Jumbel White-crowned Sparrow Red-tailed Hawk Kingfisher October 13, 1949, Misc. Notes in Butte, Colusa, & Sutter Co. Calif. 1400-1700 PST. Canada Geese - 180 in grain field W of Sutter Buttes Vultures - W of Sutter Buttes - at least 250 circling over thermal of large brush fire. Black Phoebes Say Phoebe W of Cutter Butte on barren lands, on fence post. Tree Swallows on fence along Afton-Biggs Road at 2 p.m., Butte Co. - 30 seen. Barn Swallows - 6 with the Tree swallows Yellow-billed Magpies - many seen, numbers ranging from scattered small groups of 4 or 6 up to large flocks of 120-125 individuals. Flocks were mostly in fields and on barren, rocky pastureland W and S of Sutter Buttes. Total 1200+ California Shrikes Western Meadowlarks W. Lark Sparrows common. Tri-colored Redwings - 350-400 in flock, flushed from willow thicket at edge of marsh. Brewer Blackbirds - 1000's on highway pavement and shoulder on Princeton-Colusa road. October 13, 1949, Lower Butte Sink, NW of West Butte, Sutter Co. Calif. 4-450 p.m. Blue Heron Cinnamon Teal Gallinules Black Phoebe Mallards Wood Ducks - 14 paired Coots Calif. Shrike Baldpates Red-tailed Hawk Wilson Snipe - 1 Lark Sparrows common Pintails Sparrow Hawk Mourning Doves - 2 W.-crn. Sparrows Green-winged Teal Pheasants Monterey Jumbel S.S. Flicker October 15, 1949 Capitol Park, Sacramento, Calif. - 12-1245 noon Monteary R.a. Cedar Waxwings Flickers Audubon Warbler Inters California Jay English Sparrows W. Crow