Bird notes, v4396
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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.