Bird notes, v4397
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found a chat singing we stopped for lunch and heard all his variations saw him in excellent light, and saw him pick up a from Caterpillar, such as our finds. Three Lazuli Buntings were victim hearing and bird spent much of the time chasing each other in and out among the Sycamores, often perching in the mustard where the blue showed to best advantage. On the way home we went past the Oakland Airport and through Alameda in order to see the Knots which are mi- grating now, Sand Toss and many other shore birds and 36-40 Foster Terms. Tall list: Turkey Buzzards (3); Redtails 3; Spar- row Hawk 1; Swail many; Clapper Rail (near Airport); Black-bellied Plover 36-40; Semi-palmated Plover 8 Al; Hudsonian Curlew (26-36) +15; Willets 20t; Knot 2; Least Sandpipers 5dt; Red-backed Sandpiper (full pl) 15t; Dowitcher 20t; Godwits 40t; Sanderling (100+); Glaucous g.; Western (Al); Calip., Pintail, Foster Terms 36-40; Anna Hummer 1; King Fisher 1; Flycatcher Nuttall (W in part); Calif. colony) in Black Phoebe!; Wood Plover 1; Western (several); Barn Swallow (Al); Cliff Swallow Mt. Edw.; Tree Swallow, Park; Coast P Calif. Jay (Park); Crow (near Berryessa); Titmouse; Chickadee (upper Alum Rock Canyon); Slender-billed Nuthatch (several); Wrentit; Canyon Wren, Vigors, House; Shrike (mt. Edw.); Warbling Vireo 3er.; Lutecent Warbler; Yellow, Chat; Redwing, Meadowlark, Bullock Oriole, Brewer Blackbird; Black Ed. Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting at.