Bird notes, v4397
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1940 We lunchcd near the Radio Station where we found more Horned Larks, Bryant Sparrows, Linnets, Also Meadowlarks and Killdeer - evidently nesting (Bryant Sparrow was seen carrying nesting material. Ridgwing Blackbirds were seen and a few Farallone Cormorants On the way home we stopped at Fernside Blvd. just as the tide turned and found the shore lined with the following species: 1 Bt. Plover (ai grey plumage), 50+ Semipalmated Plover, [illegible] 6 Black Turnstones, several Hudsonian Curlew), a few Willets, the three kinds of Sandpipers and hundreds of Dowitchers, three Godwits. Also hundreds of Bon. Gulls and many Forster's Terns Dowitchers on the water were W.W. and Surf Scoters and Bluebills. Also some Coots. Cloudy with strong west wind. (We looked for Knots but did not find them) April 24. The Laddie Birds went to Alum Rock Park, On the way we stopped at the Alvarado Lobelia Pond where we saw two Greater Yellowlegs and several Red-backed and Western Sandpipers. The full list for the day was: Blue Heron, Calaveras Reservoir; Ringard - 6 in one groups "" ; Red-tailed Hawk, Alum Rock Sparrow Hawk, Zuniil - flushed one from a nest in the grass next to the roadway in Alum Rock Park. The nest contained six eggs (Gr. Yellowlegs, Red & West. Sandpipers, at Alvarado), Forsythia Tern, at Calaveras Res., Mourning Dove, Anna Humming.