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1934
groups of ten to forty birds each. Six or seven
hundred must have passed while we were
watching - all headed north and flying twice
as fast as the Sesters which often formed in a
V. Once a commorant (Brant?) took its place
in the V and flew some distance with them.
Birds seen at or near the point were: Pacific Loons,
Bradt & Band Commorants, White-winged and Surf
Scooters, Buffle-heads (one group of 15± well off shore),
Western, Glaucous-winged (??) and (Calif. Los Rengillas?
Gulls?), California Nures, Pigeon Guillemots, Tufted
Puffins(4), Western Crows, Rock Wren, Willow Gold-
finch, Fox Sparrow, Nuttall Sparrow - song more
vibrant than ours, more like the Puget Sound variety.
Believe the point and Davenport we saw also:
Burgards, Marsh, Sparrow(1) and Restail Harlels, Dacil
(in pairs), Raven, Flicker, Allen Hummingbird, Horned
Larks, Barn, Cliff, and Violet-green Swallows, Calif. Jay,
Cheesetack (Suckers?) Chickadee, Woodswark, Brewer and
Redwinged Blackbirds; and at Davenport Western Grebe,
Alt. Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Hudsonian,
Curlew (30±), Long-billed Dowitchers (36±), W. Kingfisher,
Western Flycatcher, Chickadees, Bush-tits, Robin(1), Pounding
Vires, Lutescent, Tolanie and Pale-olated Warblers, Purple
Finch, Linnet, Willow Goldfinch, Spotted Towhee, 53
53 + SeanPt etc = Total 72 species.
Apr. 13. Fog mornings late afternoon - Flock of Purple Finches
eating worms in gnats. Saw several worms dropping
from trees on webs. Blue Jays have been
feeding young several days. A pair of Spotted Towhee
below the new pool kept scolding. Finally