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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.