July 4, 1959, Reese River Valley, N. 30, SW of Austin Jander Co. Nevada - 5:30-5:45 PDST. Horned Larks - some Ravens - 29 July 4, 1959, Fallon, Churchill Co. Nevada. SE and W of town. 7-7:45 a.m. PDST. Glossy Ibis - flocks of 5-25 flying over much of irrigated areas. Marsh Hawks Sparrow Hawks Calif. Gulls Mourning Doves Western Kingbirds Barn Swallows Cliff Swallows Black-billed Magpies W. Mockingbirds House Sparrows Redwings Yellow-headed Blkbds. Brewer Blackbirds Cowbirds July 11, 1959, Camp Winton, Bear River, Amador Co. Calif. Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper Hawk Mountain Quail and 10 young Red-shafted Flicker Hairy Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Hot, calm. Wood Pewee Stellar Jay Mountain Chickadees Red-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Western Tanagers Black-headed Grosbea's Evening Grosbeaks Cassin Finches Fox Sparrows July 12, 1959, Camp Harvey West, Upper Echo Lake, Eldorado Co. Calif. Rufous Hummingbird - 5 Red-shafted Flicker Wood Pewee - 5 Stellar Jays common Clarke Nutcracker - 2 Mountain Chickadee Pigmy Nuthatches Robins Townsend Solitaire Audubon Warbler MacGilvray Warbler Wilson Warbler Green-tailed Towhee Oregon Juncos Chipping Sparrows Gray-headed Fox Sp. Cooler, breezy. August 2, 1959, Clairidge Drive, Sacramento, Calif. Lot. 16 obs. Calif. Quail - 8 Kingfisher - 1 Red-shafted Flicker - 2 Acorn Woodpecker - 4 Nuttall Woodpecker - 2 Ash-throated Flycatcher - 2 Western Crows Scrub Jays Yellow-bill Magpies- 18 Plain Titmouse White-bstd Nuthatch Mockingbirds Robins Bullock Oriole Brewer Blackbirds House Finchs Sept. 1, 1959, Silver Lake, Amador Co. Calif. 7150' el. Swainson Hawk Anna Hummingbirds Kingfisher - 2 Red-shafted Flickers Hairy Woodpeckers No wood pewees!! Stellar Jays - 1st cllers in a.m. Nutcracker Mountain Chickadees Balmy weather. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2nd earliest callers in a.m. White-brst Nuthatch Creeper Robins Calaveras Warblers Audubon Warblers Brewer Blkbds. Western Tanager - 1 Cassin Finches common Pine Grosbeaks - 5 Green-tail Towhee - 3 Oregon Junco Fox Sparrow-gray headed. Sept. 23, 1959, Southside Park, Sacramento Calif. 6:45 a.m. Lesser Snow Goose - 1 crip. Mallard - 4 pair Ring-necked Ducks - 1 pr. Coots - 8-10 Flicker Scrub Jay Mockers Lesser Goldfinch October 10, 1959, Oakport Road, Alameda, Alameda Co. Calif. 1110-1145PST. Clear, warm. Snowy Egret - 3 Pintails - 120-200, few full plumaged Shovellers - M and F, but no full plumaged. Black-bellied Plover - 15-20, singles Killdeer - 5 pair Godwits - 100's Willetts - 100's Long-billed Curlew - 50-100 Greater Yellow-legs - 5 Red-backed Sandpipers - 150-300 Long-billed Dowitchers - 100-125 Western Sandpipers Least Sandpipers Avocets - no redheads, but 40-50 seen. Horned Larks House Finches West of Bridge and golf course at Bay Farm Island 10,000's of shorebirds of all types, including a dozen or so Black Turnstones on the mud flats.