Field notes, v667
Page 781
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April 7, 9-10,1956, Woodburn and vicinity, Marion Co. Oregon. Cool, calm, clear. Lesser Canada Goose - 1 Mallards - few pairs on ponds Vultures - 8-10 Redtailed Hawks - 2 Sparrow Hawk Pheasants Bobwhites - 7 Calif. Quail - 14 Killdeer Mourning Doves - 2 pair, cooing Rufous Hummingbirds about flowering current Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-shafted Flickers with long call notes Red-breasted Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Horned Larks Violet-green Swallows very common Tree Swallows- few Scrub Jays Western Crows Oregon Chickadees Bush Tits Robins common Varied Thrush common Western Bluebirds Ruby-crowned Kinglets Audubon Warbler Yellow Warbler Western Meadowlarks House Sparrows Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Evening Grosbeaks common Purple Finches common House Finch uncommon Spotted Towhees Oregon Juncos common White-crowned Sparrows Fox Sparrows Song sparrows common and mating. Pine Siskins' April 21, 1956, Plymouth-Sutter Creek, Amador Co.,Calif. Via Fiddletown-Volcano.8-11 a.m. Vultures Red-tailed Hawk Calif. Quail - 5 pair Mourning Dove - 1 pr. Calif. Woodpeckers common Western Kingbird - 3 pair Black Phoebe - 6 at culverts Barn Swallow Stellar Jay- 3 Calif. Jay - 8 Yellow-billed Magpie - 2 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Robins Yellow Warbler - sev. singing Long-tailed Chat - 2 Redwings Bullock Orioles - chasing each Brewer Blackbirds Western Tanager - 2 Black-headed Grosbeaks - many singing House Finches common Lawrence Goldfinches Green-backed Goldfinches Spotted Towhees Brown Towhees Lark Sparrows -many Oregon Juncos - few Chipping Sparrows Golden-crowned Sparrows April 28, 1956, Hays Landing, Sacto R. by boat SeaSong to Rio Vista, thru Georgiana Slough, S. Joaquin R., False R. and Three-mile Slough. 9a.m. to 4 p.m. Birds uncomm. Blue Heron - 1 Night Heron - 2 Green Heron - 3 Vulture - 3 or 4 White-tailed Kite - 2 Red-tailed Hawks - 4 Sparrow Hawk - 3 Calif. Quail - 2 pair Coots - 25-30 Killdeer - 3 W and L Sandpipers - 3 flocks25-45 Calif. Gull - 40-50 Caspian Tern - 1 near Brickyard Rock Dove Mourning Dove - 3 pair Flicker - 8 Calif. Woodpecker - 3 Nuttall Woodpecker - 2 Black Phoebe - 4 Tree Swallow - 7 Rough-winged Swallow - 25-30 Bank Swallow - 15-20 Barn Swallow - 40-50 Cliff Swallow - 180's Scrub Jays - 12's W. Crows - 45-50 Plain Titmouse - 6 Marsh Wren - 20-25 Yellow Warblers MacGilvray Warbler Pileolated Warbler W. Meadowlark Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Cowbird - 4 Blue Grosbeak - 1M House Finches common Green-backed Goldf. Willow Goldfinch Sp.Towhees Song Sparrows - 12's