April 7, 9-10, 1956, Woodburn and vicinity, Marion Co. [faint] Cool, calm, clear. February 5, 1956, Bodega Bay, Sonoma Co. Calif. 1030-noon. Cold N wind blowing. Common Loon - 2 pairs on ponds Pacific Loon - 4D Red-throated Loon - 2 Horned Grebes common Eared Grebe - 2 or 3 Hoebell's Grebe - 3 Western Grebe - 1h Baird Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant cooing Blue Heron - birds about flowering Black Brant - 750-800 Canvasbacks - 100's with long call Lesser Scauped Sapucker Rufflehead - 3 Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter flows very common American Scoter few Red-breasted Merganser Coots Oregon Chickadees Black-bellied Plovers & moon Killdeers Western Downbirds Long-billed Curlews Ringlets Godwits Audubon Warbler Wilets Yellow Warbler Western Sandpipers Woodlarks Least Sandpi-rs arrows Red-backed Sandpipers Sanderlings or Blackbirds Ring-billed Gull Broshea - common Herring Gullie finched srown Glaucous Gull - 1 for sure Western Gull - carrying and dropping cockle on soft bay sand to crack it or loosen it. Kittiwake white-crowned Sparrows House Finch Song Sparrows common and mating. Pine Siskins Feb. 5, 1956, Sonoma Coast, Bodega Bay-Jenner - 1215-215 p.m. PST. Cold N wind. Double-crested Cormorant Common Loon Surf Scoter - 1956, Plymouth-Sutter Creek, Sador Co, Calif. Vis Fiddletown-Volcano, 8-11 a.m. Vultures: Duck Hawked Hawk Coot f. Quail - 5 pair Western Gullie - 1 pr. Herring Gull leckers common Ravenem Kingbird - 3 pair Robin Phoebe - 6 at culverts Meadowlarkow House Finch - 3 Song Sparrow, B Yellow-billed Narpie - 2, Brewer Blackbirds Western Tanager - 2 Black-headed Grosbeaks - many singin'g House Finches common Lawrence Goldfinches Green-backed Goldfinches Spotted Towhees Brown Towhees Lark Sparrows -many Oregon Junco's - few Chipping Sparrows Redwing March 3, 1956, Fond just N of Cosumnes River School-Sacto Co, Calif. 1 p.m. Baldpates - 21 Common Golden-eye -'2 Coot - 7 Pintail - 33 er - sev. sips Lesser Scamp D-2L - 2 Ruddy Duck - 4 Redwings March 3, 1956, Excelsior Road, south to Florin Road, 2-3:30 p.m. Sacto. Co. Calif. Baldpate - 35 Pintail -, 70/50, Days Landing, Sacto R. by boat SeaSong to Rio Vista, thre Youtigone C. Merganser -.25. Joaquin R., Fales R. and three-mile Slough. Sa.m.e. to l p.m. Stork uncoun Vulture Black Phoebe - h White-tailed Kite - 1 imm. hovering, and lowered to ground by merely heightening Vof wings. Marsh Hawk Rough-winged Swallow - 25 Sparrow Hawk or 4 Bank Swallow - 35-30 Coot - 150 of Kite - 2 Barn Swallow - 40-50 Killdeer Hawks - h Cliff Swallow - 10's Willet - 17 in flock - Greater Yellowlegs Jays - 12's Calif Gulls - 2 pair N. Crows - 45-50 Meadowlarks Plain Titmouse - 6 Redwings Marsh Wren - 20-25 Brewer Blackbirds - 1000's en cattle and horse pasturelands Savannah Sparrows - 100's Caspian Barn - 1 near Brickyard Rock Dove MacGillyvay warbler Mourning Dove - 3 pair Pileolated Warbler Flicker - 8 N. Meadowlark Calif. Woodpecker - 3 Redwings Cowbird - h Blue Jay