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Continued - May 12, 1975 - Sonoita Creek, Patagonia - continued from "Phainopepla".
Starlings
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo - several
Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
Yellow Warbler - sev.
Audubon Warbler - sev.
MacGilvray Warb - 1
Yellow-throat - 5-6
Yellow-breasted Chat - ? 2
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??** About chat-size, on open ground with sparrows - flew to thicket across stream to willow, upstream and back across to sparse shrubs-sandy-area/near creek.
Yellow breast and ? belly. Dark pointed bill, white line over eye, grayish above, with large, light (white) patches on shoulder area of wings. Not Y-b Chat.
Wilson Warblers - several
Common Redstart - 2
House Sparrows near Patagonia end.
Meadowlark sp.
Redwings
Hooded Oriole - 1 pr.
Bullock Oriole - 8-10 pair
Brewer Blackbird - 1 pr.
Great-tailed Grackles - sev.
Brown-headed Cowbirds
Western Tanagers- 12's with "pittock" calls
Hepatic Tanager - 4 pr.
Summer Tanager - 3 pr with "chid dick" calls
Cardinals - sev. pr.
Pyrrhuloxia - 1 pr.
Black-headed Grosbeaks - 1 pr.
Lazuli Bunting LM
House Finches
Lark Buntings - few
Lesser Goldfinches
Ruf-sided Towhee
Brown Towhee - 1 with strong several-syllable song.
Five-striped Sparrow - Aimophila quin questriata - LIFER - saw two or three - good looks-on south slope, cactus, ocotilla, scrub, herbs, and few mesquite. Perched on ocotilla.
Rich brown above - uniform on head and back. Face dark. Facial stripes beow eye-bill line, vertical, 3 white, with black inbetween. Grayer side of head and below. Tail grayer. Appearance is"long-pointed, bill to tail". Song from ocotilloa 3 syllable, rough call and assorted chirps - not like, but similar to song sparrow, etc.
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrows
Chipping Sparrows
Brewer Sparrows
Song Sparrow
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??** - Trim, 6& " bird. 100' away on ocotillo on dry, sparse south slope hill (with Five-striped SpS.), perched erect, repeating 3-syllables - 2hi, 1 lower, all "churred". Appeared uniformly blue gray on sides and above, with clear yellow below on chest and belly. Color layout underneath like black phoebe or slate-colored junco males. Head and throat to upper chest also blue gray.
86 spx identified
+ 3 unknowns
89
5/5-12/75 Arizona Trip.
5 Xfers = 13%
10 NB% = 637
27 avg = 288
197 species seen
+ 3 unknowns
200 ft 7 ½ days, including 3 day parking