Field notes, v669
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June 27, 1974, Victoria Airport, Br.Col. 1215-110p.m. Breezy, occsnl R-, ovc. Canada Geese over Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Pheasant Killdeer Eastern Kingbird Skylark - also 6/24,9p.m. Violet-green Swallow Barn Swallow C and NW Crows Robin Hermit Thrush Starlings Pine Siskins Common Goldfinches Grasshopper Sparrows Vesper Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Song Sp. 3984 June 27, 1974, Redmond Airport, Deschutes Co. Oregon - 6p.m. Clear and warm. Pinyon Jay - 6 Sage Thrasher - 2 Mountain Bluebird - 1 Sage Sparrow Vesper Sparrow. 3985 June 28, 1974, Sacramento, Calif. Howe Avenue. W. Kingbird, Scrub Jay House Finches. 3986a June 28, 1974, US40, Gold Run, Placer Co. Calif. 5 p.m. Killdeer Mourning Dove Rough-winged, Barn and Cliff Swallows Brewer Blackbirds Cowbird Ruf-sided Towhee. 3987 +6 June 28, 1974, Sierraville and vicinity, Sierra Co. Calif. 645p.m. Killdeer Common Snipe - several on fence posts and tops of small hay piles. Ring-billed Gulls Mourning Doves Kingfisher Nighthawk - pueent call Say Phoebe Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Black-billed Magpie Stellar Jay Robin Hutton Vireo Nevada Redwings Brewer Blackbird Cowbird Evening Grosbeaks Red Crossbills Chipping Sparrows 3988 June 29-30, 1974, Jamieson Creek, Plumas-Eureka State Park - 5:30-8 a.m. each day. w/ Howard and Barbara Leach. Mallard Virginia Rail Band-tailed Pigeon -2 immatures? Pileated Woodpecker White-headed Woodpecker Red-breasted Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Wright Flycatcher & Gray Flyc. Olive-sided Flycatcher Western Flycatcher Traill Flycatcher -fleebeck Wood Pewee -#1 in a.m., last in eveing Violet-green Swallow Rough-winged Swallow Cliff Swallow Tree Swallow Stellar Jay chased strongly by W. Tanager Bushtits Black-capped Chickadees Mountain Chickees Red-breasted Nuthatches - family of 7& working outer swigs, Creepers - family of 7 or 8. Robins on nest Hermit Thrush Swainson Thrush chased by Fox Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglets. Hutton Vireo - 2 chasing Stellar Jay Calaveras Warbler M Yellow Warbler 3989 Plumas Co. Calif. MacGilvray Warblers Wilson Warblers Audubon Warblers Redwings Cowbirds W. Tanager - F singing. They chased Stellar Jay - large, young WT on ground afterwards Black-headed Grosbeaks Evening Grosbeaks - 150-200 or more as singles and in small flocks in different directions. Different calls of two types. Pine Grosbeaks Cassin Finches Green-tailed Towhee Oregon Junco Pine Siskins Lincoln Sparrow Kox Sparrow - several with gray head and back. Russet tail and wings. Lighter breast pattern. Purposely worked way up tree and jumped across to flush singing Swainson Thrush from next tree. Song Sparrow.