January 10, 1959, Lake Merritt, Oakland, Calif. 9-915a.m.PST. OVC, showers, cool. Eared Grebe Horned Grebe Pidd-billed Grebe White Pelican Double-crst Cormorant W. Canada Goose Cackling Canado Goose Lesser Snow Goose White-fronted Goose Mallard Baldpate - 100's European Widgeon - 1 Pintail Redhead - 3 Ring-nekcled Ducks - 15-25 Canvassback - 200 LesserScaup Common Golden-eye Ruddy Duck Varied Thrushes Hermit Thrushes Brown Towhees 2499 January 1h, 1959, Southside Park, Sacramento, Calif. 11-1110 a.m.PST. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Mallard - 11 Ring-necked Duck - 23M and 13F or imm. Lesser Scaup - 1 F Coot - 18 Calif. Gull - 3 Flicker Audubon Warblers. 2500 January 21, 1959, Southside Park, Sacramento, Calif. 11-1110 a.m.PST. -Ovc/ cool, 3 mph. Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Snow Goose - 1 Mallard - 3 pair Ring-necked Duck - 23M, 11ForImm. Lesser Scaup - 2 Coot - 12 Red-shafted Flicker - h Downy Woodpecker - 1 Scrub Jay - 6 Robin - 3 Audubon Warblers - 12's House Sparrows 2501 February 4, 1959, 1 mi. N of Gold Hill, NW of Newcastle, Placer Co. Calif. noon-1:30p.m. Vultures - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - h pair, courting Sparrow Hawk Red-shafted Flickers - h pair Acorn Woodpeckers Nuttall Woodpeckers Scrubby Jays Yellow-billed Magpies Plain Titmice Common Bushtits Bewick Wrens Robins - few Ruby-crowned Kinglets - 12's Starlings - 15 with BBR's Hutton Vireo - 2 Audubon Warbler - 12 Brewer Blackbirds - 12's Spotted Towhees Brown Towhee - 2 Pine Siskins Golden-crowned Sparrows White-crowned Sparrows 2502 February 12, 1959, Southside Park, Sacramento Calif. 10-1015a.m.PST. Cool, clear.Calm. Pied-billed Grebeq- 2 Mallard - 12 Ring-necked Duck - 35M and 16F --51 Lesser Scaup - h8M and 28F or? - 76 Coot - 18 Flickers Scrub Jays Bewick Wren Robin Varied Thrush - 12 Audubon Warblers. 2503 February 16, 1959, El Centro Road, Sacto. Co. Calif. 1:45-2:15 p.m.PST. RN-SWL5-25 Brkn. Canada Geese - common Mallard - 12's of pairs in flooded fields. Pintail - 12's of pairs " " " " Vulture - 8 Marsh Hawk - 12-1h seen, most paired. Sparrow Hawk - 12's Coots - 100's Mountain Plover - 2 with Killdeer, Dunlins and Western Sandpipers on very wet muddy field. Black-bellied Plover - 75-100 in green short pasture. Common Snipe - 3 flushed Western Sandpipers - 12's Dunlins - 12's Glaucous-winged Gull - 1 with 100's of California Gulls on flooded rice fields. Savannah Sparrows common. 2504 ALSO GOLDEN PLOVER ON 2/15/59 ON PT. PLEASANT RD OFF FRANKLIN. LIFE LISTER.