Field notes, v668
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Feb. 4, 1968, Franklin Road- Canal Farm area Sacto. Co. Calif. 2-5 p.m.PST. ovc, hazy, dull. pied-billed Grebe -12's Blue Heron - 1 Whistling Swan -100's, 12's dead Common Canada Goose - 50 Cackling Canadas - 150& White-fronted Goose - 75 Mallards - 12's Pintal - 100's Green-winged Tea -6 Wood Duck -2M Shoveller - 2M, 4 Forimm. Pheants Calif Quail Sandhill Crane - 2000& everywhere on field & in air. Coots - 1000's Turkey Vulture White-tailed Kite Red-tailed Hawk Marsh Hawk Red-shouldered Hk Sparrow Hawk w/ Sam and Willie Argante Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Dunlins - 90-60 Mourning Doves Burrowing Owl - 1 Belted Kingfisher Red-brstd Sapsucker - 1 Black Phoebe Horned Lrk Scrub Jays -12's W. Crow - some Yellow-bill Mgpie-12's Long-bill Marsh Wren Robins Ruby-crown Kinglet - 3 Loggerhdd Shrike Starlings Pipits Audubon Warbler House Sparrow W. Meadowlark Yellow-head Blackbird - 2M Redwings Bi & Tri Brewer Blackbird Brn-hd Cowbirds -12's Common Goldfinch Lesser Goldfinch Ruf-sided Towhee Brown Towhee Lark Sparrows Whiteern Sparrows. 3293 Feb. 5, 1968, San Francisco Airport, Calif. 805 a.m. PST. Blue Heron - 1 Avocet - 2 "redheads" Calif. Gulls 3295 Feb. 6, 1968, Irving-North Lake, NW Dallas Co. Texas. 7:45-9:15 a.m. CST. w/ Warren Pulich Mesquite scrub & grasslands & farms. Clear, calm, 40-50°F. Red-tailed Hawk - 15-20 Marsh Hawk - 2 Sparrow Hawk - 8 Canvasbak - 25-30 Gadwall - 5 pr. Mallad - 12 Baldpae - 6 Coots 12's Killdeer - sev. pr. Ring-bill Gulls - 6 Mourning Doves -10-15 Yel-shfted Flicker - 2 Horned Lrk - 12's Blue Jy - severa Western Crows - 12's Tufted Titmouse - 2 W. Mockingbird - 1 Robin - 14 Eastern Bluebird - 1M Loggerhead Shriek - 10-12 Starling - 100's House Sparrow - 12's W. Meadowlark (some Easterns) Redwings, regular 3-color Brewer Blackbird - 1's Cardinals Savannah Sprs. - 4& Fox Sparrow - 1 (Smith Longspurs - looked long & hard, but none seen!) 3296 Feb. 6, 1968, Elm River Nature Center - N of U. of Dallas, Irving, Dallas Co. Texas 9;45-10:45cs Gumbo bottomlands of cottonwood, hackberry, cedar elm, swamp privet, etc. Clear, 55° calr Gadwall -4 Green-wing Teal - 25 Wood Duck - 5 Killdeer Mourning Doves Red-bellied Wpkr - 4 Downy Wpkr. -1 Ladder-back Woopkr - 1 Blue Jys W. Crows Car. Chickadees Tufted Titmouse House Wrens Carolina Wren Brown Thrasher - 2 acting like they had a nesting territory Ruby-crowned Kinghet - 2 Golden-crn. Kinglet -1 Starlings W. Meadowlarks Brewer Blackbirds Cardinals - 3 pr. Boat-tailed Grackles White-thrttd Sp. and Fox Sp.at 35; 3297 Feb. 17, 1968, Pine Hill, Mont. Co. Md. 1110-1140 am. EST. Cool, below 55, windy, brkm. sky. Mourning Dove - 1 pr. Blue Jgy - 2 Common Crow - 4, 3 Tufted Titmouse -1 Starlings - 25-30 House Sparrow - few Cardinal - 1 M Common Goldfinches - 7 Slate-colored Junco - 2 3298