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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.