June 5 lower Colorado River, Calif (Imperial Co.) Ground Doves, and host of Cowbirds. We looked for Wied's G. Flycatcher + Bronzed Cowbird, but couldn't find any. From here we went to Laguna Dam, but found very little here. There were about 15-20 Cormorants in the Calif. Swamp, but no trees of any sort - very few water birds here. At West Pond, near Imperial Dam we found an Osprey, a white plumage Barnaparte Gull, and a nice Franklin's Gull in good [illegible] summer plumage (throat white). We then looked in the trees behind Imperial Dam where we found a pair of Vermillion Flycatcher. Both birds were silent and busily capturing insects in a wood of 3+ young in a nest in a low Mesquite trees. Very perched low in the trees like mosquitoes, and picked insects from the air or even from the ground, the preying beat being ground level to about 5 feet up. The nest was of small twigs, coarse in structure, placed in the crotch of some small twigs on a 7/4