November 5, 1956, 2 p.m. Southside Park, Sacramento Calif. Clear, calm, warm. Pied-billed Grebe - 4 Mallard - 8 pair of wild ones Ring-necked Ducks - 11 full Males, 4 maturing males, and 24 Females or immatures. Lesser Scaup - 3 - 1M Coots - 16 Calif. Gulls - 3 Flicker, Audubon Warblers and Juncos common. November 13, 1956. Bass Lake, 1000' el, Eldorado Co. Calif. Cvc, calm, warm. Pied-billed Grebe - 27 Kingfisher - 1 Meadowlarks - dozens Mallard - 2 Calif. Woodpecker - 6 Brewer Blackbirds Green-winged Teal - 2 Yellow-billed Magpies Lark Sparrows Ruddy Duck - 16 W. Crows Savannah Sparrows Coots - 800 Plain Titmice Nov. 13, 1956 -- Rescue-Coloma-Garden Valley area, Eldorado Co. Calif. Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Robins - 100's Meadowlarks - dozens Calif. Woodpecker Western Bluebirds - 12's Brewer Blackbirds Say Phoebe Ruby-crowned Kinglets Brown Towhees Scrub Jays Audubon Warblers Spotted Towhees W. Crows December 9, 1956, Gray Lodge Refuge and around Sutter Buttes, 915a.m.-2:30p.m.PST. Calm, clear, 35-55°F. 1956 Annual Trek of Sacto.Aud. Soc.,which I lead. Horned Grebe 1 on refuge pond. Avocets - 15 Pied-billed Grebe - 12's Calif. Gulls White Pelicans - 12-15 Mourning Doves Blue Heron - 25-30 seen. Burrowing Owl - 1 Common Egret - 8-10 Belted Kingfisher - 2 Snowy Egret - 3 Red-shafted Flicker - 12's Black-crowned Night Heron - 25-30 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Common Bittern - 6-8 Nuttall Woodpecker - 1 Whistling Swan - 20-25 Acorn Woodpecker - 12-20 Canada Goose - Honker -12's Say Phoebe - 2 Lesser Canada Goose - 12's Black Phoebe - 1 Cackling Canada Goose - 12's Horned Lark's - 12's White-fronted Goose - 3-4,000 Tree Swallows - 2 Ross Goose - 12-15 seen for sure & & Scrub Jay Snow Goose - 100-150,000 W. Crow Mallard - 250-300,000 Yel-billed Magpies -12's Green-winged Teal - 100's House Wren - 1 Pintail - 300-400,000 Marsh Wren - 12's Baldpate - 100,000 Rock Wren in rock fences - 2 Shoveller - 100's Mockingbird - several Gadwall - 6 Robin - 2 Lesser Scaup - 4 W. Bluebird - 3 Ruddy Duck - 100's Mtn. Bluebird - dozen Turkey Vulture - 15-20 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 12-15 Red-tailed Hawks - 628 Pipits - 100's Marsh Hawk - 5-6 Loggerhead Shrike - up to 3 in 1 bunch Sparrow Hawk - 25-30 Audubon Warblers - 100's Calif. Quail - 8 House Sparrows Pheasants - 12's Starlings - 3-400 in varied flock sizes, singles. Sandhill Cranes - 100& Meadowlarks - 100's Black Gallinule - 25-35 Redwings - 10,000's Coots - 1000's Brewer Blackbirds - 10,000's Killdeer Brown-headed Cowbirds - 5 Long-billed Curlew - 7 House Finches - 1,000's Lesser Yellow-legs Common Goldfinches - 100's Dowitcher - Long-billed - 50& Arkansas Goldfinches - 100's Common Snipe - 6-8 Spotted Towhee Savannah Sp. Lark Sp. Western & Least Sandpipers Oregon Junco White-crowned Sp. Golden-corn. Sp. Red-backed Sandpipers Song Sparrow. +2 834c