Field notes, v669
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October 26, 1971, Avery Park, Benton Co. Oregon 1-1:30 p.m. PDST Red-breasted Sapsucker Starlings - many Brewer Blackbirds Scrub Jay House Sparrow - 1 w/ white prim and sec. wing feathers and outer tail Tangent-Portland along I-5. 4:15-5:15 p.m. PDST Red-tailed Hawk Sparrow Hawk Calif. and Ring-bill Gulls C. Crows Robins October 27-28, 1971, Lake Oswego, Multnomah Co. Oregon - all hours Pied-billed Grebe Coots common Western Grebe Red-shafted Flicker Mallards Stellar Jay Green-wing Teal - 2 Scrub Jay Shovellers - 2 F or imm C. Crow Surf Scoter - 1 Robins Gulls of 3 species - 1000's to W end of lake each evening and east each a.m. Red-tailed Hawk Purple Finches Pigeon Hawk House Finches Green-back Goldfinches Nov. 25, 1971 - Thanksgiving at Great Falls, Md. 35-40°F. N 15-20. Clear. 12:30-1pm. TV - 6+ Can Chickadees Mocket Wd. Test Sp. BV - 5+ Downy Wrens Golden-crowned December 13, 1971, De Soto National Wildlife Refuge, Washington Co. Nebr. and Ovcst. Harrison Co. Iowa. 2-3:30p.m. CST. 20°F. w/ Ed Loth, BSF&W and John L.Howard,Manit Canada Goose - 3-4,000 C. Golden-eyes - few C. Crows Snow Goose - 80-85,000 Rough-legged Hawk - 2 Starlings - 100's Blue Goose - 10-15,000 Bald Eagles - 25 ad & imm. Cardinal - 8-10 Mallards - sev. 1000 Pheasants - 2M Harris Sparrow - 4 Shovellers - few Red-shafted Flicker - 1 Pintail - few Horned larks 3rd Annual White House Christmas Bird Count (See 12/27/69 and 1/27/71 entries) 9:50-11:25a.m. Clear, gusty to 25mph,30-35°F w/ Pat Price of WH Visitor Office as recorder. Barry Seraphin, CBS, ?WMAL and W.Star along Sparrow Hawk - 2 Rock Dove - 17 Downy Woodpecker -2 Blue Jay - 1 Mockingbird - 5 Starling - 1 at close(distress calls used WH) House Sparrow - 69 Cardinal - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 5 Totals - 9 species, 106 individuals