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Feb. 2 (cont.) 1 Aud. Wadler at Laramie Infirmary; 10-12 Brought 3 Torches.
26t White-crowned Sparrows (sp.?); 30t Golden-crowns,
4 Fox Sparrows, 4 Song Sparrows.
Snow piled at sides of road at top of ridge above Saratoga.
Feb. 3, Drove to Boulder Creek. Cloudy, warm.
At Drumbar ton Bridge on the Salt pools there
were no Egrets or Pelicans. Eared Grebes
immense as usual and a flock of about
20 Spoonbills next to the highway. A few
Bluebills, (3 males, 3 females) moved in
with the grebes. In a puddle west of
Alvarado there was a flock of about 30
Red-backed Sandpipers. At the Bridge
the tide was running out and the shore
was covered with Sandpipers and Willets and in the distance 20-30
Gadwalls (wings showed dark emargination
as they lifted them). There were thousands
of birds as far as I could see to north
and south - almost all of the larger
birds being willets. At Mt. View Marsh
the tide was out. A large flock of
Avocets - most of them close together
in the distance, but very near the highway.
They used the ripple motion in
feeding. Long-billed and Hudsonian Curlews, B.b.Plover.
List of Shore birds:
B.b. Plover - Common - scattered -
Long billed Curlew " " at Mt. View -
Hudsonian Curlew - 2 seen.
W. Willets 1000s at Bridge.
Least Sandp. ab. at Mt. View.
Red b. Dunlin - a few at Mt. View.
Western Sandp. ab. at Bridge.
Godwit - a few (20-30) at Bridge.
Avocets (150±) at Mt. View Marsh.
Coots (500+) in barn yard near Alvarado.