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Mayhew
1950
April 4 Conaway Ranch, 2 miles east of Woodland, Yolo Co., Calif.
The following birds were seen today:
Greater Yellow-legs - 3 Mallard - 2
Red-winged Blackbird - 1 Coot - 2
Pipit - 4 Marsh Hawk - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 2 Calif. Gull - 4
Meadowlark - 2 Pheasant - 2
Marsh Wren - 3 American Egret - 3
White-crowned Sparrow - 2 Cinnamon Teal - 3
Bittern - 4 Killdeer - 3
Tree Swallow - 3 Pintail - 4
Avocet - 1 Crow - 2
Pied-billed Grebe - 4 Brewer's Blackbird - 3
Horned Lark - 3 Turkey Vulture - 4
Cliff Swallow - 2 Sparrow Hawk - 4
Great Blue Heron - 2 White Pelican - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Barn Swallow - 3
Song Sparrow - 3 Farallon Cormorant - 4
Black-necked Stilt - 4 Mourning Dove - 3
California Jay - 4 Spotted Towhee - 4
Yellow-billed Magpie - 4 Fox Sparrow - 4
Long-billed Curlew - 4 Wood Duck - 4
Black Phoebe - 4 Least Sandpiper - 3
Red-shafted Flicker - 3 Calif. Shrike - 4
This makes a total of 44 species of
birds seen today.
April 10 This evening (5 P.M.) I covered the
ditches on the extreme S.E. corner of
the ranch looking for the territories
of breeding pairs of Mallards. These