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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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January 19, 1966, Cape Ann, Essex Co. Mass. 8:15-1p.m.EST. 25-30°F. NW6-15
w/ Jim Baird, MOS, and Tom Crebbs and Ed Swenson, SCS.
Common Loon - 15-20 Rock Doves - 12's
Horned Grebe - 12's Blue Jay - 12
Eared Grebe - 2 Common Crow - 40
Hoebell Grebe - 1 Black-capped Chickadee - 6
European Cormorant - 25-30 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Mallard - 3 Robin - 4
Black Duck - 100's Starlings - 150-200
Common Golden-eye - 200 House Sparrow - 12's
Barrow Golden-eye - 1M Tom's lifer Brown-headed Cowbird - 1F
BuffTehead = 6 - Evening Grosbeak - 1
Old-Squaw - 1 E. Meadowlarks - 3
Harlequin Duck - 3 Tomxxxlifer
***Common Eider-Somateria mollissima -1 ruddy female, 1 male later at Straitsmouth.
White-winged Scoter - 150 Surf Scoter - 4
Red-breasted Merganser- 40 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Sparrow Hawk - 1
***Iceland Gull - Larus leucopterus - 1 at Eastern Point. Wings longer than tail, pinkish cast, but all white. Slender black bill.
Black-backed Gull - 75 Herring Gull - 100's
***Dovekie - Plautus alle alle- 1 fly-by at Farley Cove seen by all, ident by Baird.
January 19, 1966, Ipswich Area, Essex Co. Mass. 2-245 p.m. EST. 30°F. snowing, windy.
Pheasant - 2 ads under apple tree (4 imms. down the road)
Herring Gulls White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
Black-backed Gulls Robins - 43 in old apple tree -