Field notes, v669
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May 4,-8, 1975, Tucson, Pima Co. Arizona. 5/4 Airport, 7&p.m. 5/7 - El Camino del Serra @ I10 ponds 5/8 same ponds at 4:45 p.m.each day. Eared Grebe - 5/8 Snowy Egret - 5/7 Black-bellied Tree Duck - 5/7 pr. Cinnamon Teal - 3 pr. Shoveller - 10-12 - 5/7 Lesser Scaup - 5-6 - 5/7 Ruddy Duck - 12's - 5/7 Harris Hawk - 2, one with jesses, Ina Road- 5/7 5p.m. Coots - 12/s 5/7 Killdeer - 2 - 5/7 Avocet - 3 - 5/7 Wilson Phalarope - 1M 5/8 Inda Dove - 5/4. Tropical Kingbird - 5/4 Starlings - 5/5 House Sp. 5/4 Hooded Oriole - pr at Airp.5/1 Gr-tailed Grackle - 5/5 4070 May 5-8, 1975, at Monson's 8891 Riviera Drive, W end Santa Catalina Mtns. 2700' el. 5/6 at 7 a.m. there was ice on the bird bath! New record date low. Red-tailed Hawk - perched on pole with young rabbit. Earlier had brought gopher snake. Prairie Falcon - to SE two different breakfast times. Sparrow Hawk - 1 Mourning Dove Roadrunner - 5/7 p.m. White-winged Doves steady morning path back and forth N & S, parallel Oracle Road. Black-chinned Hummer - nest at 7' in olive in closed courtyard. 2 tiny eggs. 5/5/75. 4/19 was first setting time. 5/6 - 1 young, 1 egg at 6 p.m. 5/7 - 2 yng, diff. size. 5/8 - rate of growth was rapid, doubling, then trebling egg size in couple of days. Gilded Flickers Gila Woodpecker Ladderback Woodpecker Cactus Wren Curve-billed Thrashed Phainopepla MacGilvray Warbler Wilson Warblers common Brown-headed Cowbirds Cardinals Pyrrhuloxias House Finches Black-headed Grosbeaks Brown Towhees Rufsou-winged Sparrows - several 4071 May 5, 1975, Trail around north end of S. Catalinas from Calle Concordia to west slope of Pusch Peak - 8-12 a.m. Brkn-Clear, wind S to W by noon. 2700-3600'el. Sec17.Tl2SRllhE. Sparrow Hawks Gambell Quail many White-winged Doves- scattered Mourning Doves - many Inca Dove - 2 Roadrunner - 1 White-throated Swifts - up to 15 Black-chinned Hummers Costa Hummer Red-shafted Flicker - 1 Gilded Flicker - 8 or 10 Gila Woodpecker - sev. Ladderback Woodpecker Crested Flycatcher - Weids - 4-6 Ash-throated Flycatcher - 1 pr. Olivaceous Flycatcher - 1 Dusk/Hammond Flycatcher - 2 Violet-green Swallows Tree Swallow Cliff Swallows Verdins House Wrens Cactus Wren Canyon Wrens near spring Rock Wrens Scrub Jay - 4 Hermit Thrush - 2 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher -4pr. Burve-billed Thrashers common Gray Vireo - 2 Tennessee Warbler - 2 Nashville Warbler - 3 Townsend Warbler - 6 MacGilvray Warbler - 1-2 Wilson Warbler - 10-12 Hooded Oriole - Scott Oriole - 1M hi up Bullack Oriole -lpr. Brown-headed Cowbirds Cardinals Black-headed Grosbeaks House Finches Green-tailed Towhees 3 Rufous-sided Towhees - pr. Brown Towhees Lark Sparrows Lesser Goldfinches Rufous-crowned Sparrows Chipping Sparrow 2 4072 May 5, 1975, Tuesson-Nogales Hiway, 1:30-2 p.m. w/ Gale Monson. Vaux Swifts working northwest N of Papago Road. C. Raven - 1 Turkey Vultures Western Kingbirds - 2 White-necked Ravens - 3 House Finches 4073 May 5, 1975, Canoa Ranch, Nogales Hiway, w/GM. 210-2l5 p.m. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Ladderback Woodpecker Rough-winged Swallows - 12's House Finches Blue Heron - 1 Western Kingbirds Cliff Swallow Com. Goldfinch Ring-necked Duck - 1 M W. Wood Pewees Lucy Warbler - 1 Lark Sp. Coots - 18-20 Vermilion Flyactcher -lM Wilson Warblers Brewer Sparrows Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Tree Swallows - 12's in fillds to N. B-hd.Grosbeak Wh-crown Sps.