Field notes, v668
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February 3, 1966, Continental N to Jct. w/ US89, Pima Co. Arizona. 3:10-3:30p.m.CST with Wendell G. Swank and Seymour Levy. Red-tailed Hawk Curve-billed Thrashers Brown Towhee-12's Marsh Hawk Phainopeplas Gambel? White-crowned Sparrow Hawk Audubon Warblers Sparrow - 100's Roadrunners Pyrrhuloxia - 2 White-throated Swifts 20 near water House Finch - 100's Ravens Green-tailed Towhee - 2 3016 February 3, 1966, Winkelman, Pinal Co. Arizona - 5:45 p.m. White-throated Swifts Gilded Flicker 3017 February 4, 1966, Show Low, Navajo Co. via ASH73 to Big Lake Jct. Apache Co. Arizona 9100'el. via McNary - from 6300'. 40& road miles. W/Al LaCount of AF&G. Blue Heron over Pine Top Raven to 9000 & 4 pr. Western Bluebirds - 15 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 at 9000' Pinon Jay - 3 Gray-headed Juncos - 4 Acorn Woodpecker - 2 Mountain Chickadee - 12 Lewis Woodpecker - 1 Pigmy Nuthatch - 2 yellow-pine to aspen-spruce 3018 February 5, 1966, Showlow, Arizona to Springerville, Apache Co. Ariz. 1:15-2 p.m.CST. Pine-juniper region with grasses. Sparrow Hawk - 1 Raven - 2 Meadowlarks - 5 Mourning Dove - 6 Pinon Jay - 2 Horned Larks - 40 Western Bluebird - 14 3019 Feb. 5, 1966, Pie Town to Datil, Catron Co. New Mexico. 3-3:30 p.m. CST. Clear, cold. Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Sparrow Hawk - 2 Ferruginous Hawk - 2 Raven - 3 C. Roughleg Hawk - 2 Mountain Chickadee Gray-headed Juncos 3020 February 18, 1966, I94,Casselon, Cass Co. to Valley City, Barnes Co. North Dakota. via area to north and east of L.Ashtabula. Noon-2:15 p.m.CST. 25-20 below X0!! Pheasant - 2M w/ JFrank Cassell, Larry Milsonw and Jack Gross of NDSU. ***Snowy Owl-Nyctea scandiaca -1 on phone pole by hiway, 1 mi. W of Casselton.Watch for while before it flew to NE across plowed field. House Sparrows -towns and homestead Rock Doves in homestead areas. Com.Redpolls -25-30 N of ValleyCy. Horned Larks - several Snow Buntings- 42 in 2 flocks. Starlings - few 3021 February 19, 1966, Huron, Beadle Co. to Chamberlain, Brule Co. South Dakota. via Wessington Springs. 4:30-6:15p.m.CST. Ovc. Snow flurries -0 to 10 below Pheasants - many near road with Paul Springer and George Jonkeyl. Horned Larks House Sparrows Crow - 1 Redpolls Starling - in town Lapland Longspurs in flocks. 3022 February 20, 1966, Chamberlain-BigBend Dam area, Lyman,Brule,& Buffalo Cos. South Dakota. 7:30-noon, CST. 20-5 below zero. Windy& cold. w/Warren Jackson,Springer & Jonkel. Mallard - lM below BigBendDam Common Merganser -25M & 2Forimm. at BBD. Bald Eagle-5-7, 1 flying, others perched (300 on January inventory of Missouri R. here) Pheasant - few 3023 ***Greater Prairie Chicken-Tympanuchus cupido - 12's with Sharp-tails and without. Flying down from higher grassed-hills to feeding fields (corn and broom stubble and plowed fields. They flush first from mixed flocks and Jackson says in mixed flocks the sharp-tails get trapped and the chickens do not. Check up on use of underwing flashing as counting aid in flock flights, along with know tail methods. Since chicken body darker than sharp-tail, there is good contrast. Flocks W of Missouri R. ***Prairie Chicken-Sharp-tailed Grouse HYBRID - about 1% of all trapped by Jackson. We saw one at 1st trap site east of Missouri in S.D. More chicken than sharpie in "ours". (continue on next sheet)