Bird notes, v4397
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1938 Mallard - 1pr. Golf Course Canvasback - two seen Lesser Scaup - 200+ Common Loon? seen. Am. Golden Eye - 6+ - two min. P? Surf Scoter and White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck - a very few Marsh Hawk - one seen several times Clapper Rail - running across a slough Coot - several seen Bufflehead - Belding's? - 20-50, acalated, winter plumage, 1 breeding plumage? Kildeer - several pairs Black Turnstone (one seen) Willits - 200+ scattered - one close flock. Long-billed Dowitcher - 20+ close in. Probably Glacous - winged Hull - ab. Western Gull - Prov. Cali. at Ringtail also - Forster's Tern - 20+ on bay just west of airport. (first ones seen this spring) Horned Lark - Many seen. Song heard. Barn Swallow - near Golf Course. First this spring Pipit - several seen. Still in winter plumage; Meadowlarks ab., Singing. Apparently located for nesting. Limpets - in brush back of airport. Singing Barnyard Sparrow. Very ab. Found a nest on ground under short coarse grasses. Nest completely domed with a constricted entrance. Three eggs. Dry wide blades grass formed the frame and dome of the nest - 29 Alameda Salt Marsh Long Sparer - ab., Singing Least Sandpiper - small flocks scattered about Western Sandpiper - possibly - not definitely seen 32 Sandloung - bunched at high tide -