Field notes, v668
Page 437
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Feb. 1, 1970, Atascadero, San Luis Obispo Co. Calif. 106 p.m. w/ Howard Leach Roadrunner on freeway side of fence at south end of town. Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 near Paso Robles. Feb. 1, 1970, Pacheco Creek, W of Bell Station, C.S.H. 152. Red-tailed Hawk Yellow-billed Magpies - none in all miles before this Calif. Quail Scrub Jays Red-shafted Flicker Brown Towhees Deer resting in pasture beside hiway. Feb. 1, 1970, SE of Los Banos, Merced Co. Calif. in Grasslands duck club areas.4:30-5:30p.m. Pied-billed Grebes- Coots - 1000's Robins - 1 Common Egret - 4 Gallinules - 12's Shrikes Bittern - 1 Virginia Rail - 1 Starlings - 1000's Snow Geese - 3,000 & Killdeer Audubon Warblers - 100's Mallards Black-bellied Plover W. Meadowlark Gadwalls Greater Yellow-legs - few Tricolor Redwings & Baldpates Lesser Yellow-legs - several 100, flocked up Pintails Long-billed Curlews - sev. 100 Bicolor Redwings & Green-wing Teal Dunlins Redwings -1,000's Cinnamon Teal Common Snipe Brewer Blackbirds -1000's Shoveller Peeps Brn. hd. Cowbirds Ruddy Duck Avocets - sev. 100 White-crown Sparrows Turkey Vultures Black-necked Stilt - 12 & Song Sparrows Red-tailed Hawks Short-eared Owl - 1 Sparrow Hawks Horned Darks Ring-necked Pheasants Marsh Wrens Calif. Quail W. Mockingbirds Feb. 3, 1970, Fair Oaks to Folsom at Greenback Lane, Sacto. Co. Calif. Cooper Hawk Acorn Woodpeckers Plain Titmouse Red-tail Hawk Scrubby Jays Starlings Sparrow Hawks Yellowbilled Magpies Brown Towhees Golden-crn. Sparrows. Feb. 3, 1970, Folsom Reservoir, Placer & Eldorado Cos. Calif. 10-12:30 PST. calm. Beal Point S and E and NE to Brown Ravine. w/ Sam & Willie Argante. col,clear, Common Loon - 1 Kingfishers Ruby-crowned kinglets Arctic Loon - 1 Anna Hummers Pipits - few Eared Grebe - 4 Red-shafted Flicker Waxwings - 12's Horned Grebe - 3 Acorn Wpkr. L. Shrike common Western Grebe - 15 Nuttall Wpkr. Audubon Warblers - common Pied-billed Grebe - 12 Downy Wpkr. House Sparrow Blue Heron - 1 Yellow-belliedSapsucker Meadlk Mallard - 2 Black Phoebe Redwings -bicolor Common Mergansers Yellow-billed Magpies Brewer Blkbds. Turkey Vulture Scrub Jays Purple Finches Red-tailed Hawk - 19-15 Bushtits House Finches (Sharp-shinned by AJA) Plain Titmouse Common Goldfinches Sparrow Hawk - 12's White-breasted Nuthatches Lesser Goldfinches Golden Eagle - 1 ad. Brown Creeper Buf-sided Towhee Gallinules - 3 Wren-tits Brown Towhees Coots - 12's Bewick Wrens W. Lark Sparrows - 12's Calif. Gulls W. Mockers - 2 Oregon Junco Ring-billed Gulls Robins - few Golden-crn Sparrows Killdeer (hermit thrush-AJA) Wh.crn. Sparrows Mourning Doves W. Bluebirds common and noisy Song Sparrows