Bird notes, v4398
Page 115
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
1941 (Pt. Reyes Light House. Sept. 25 (continu), making many stops along the way & look at Bay Phoebes, Tule Wrens, Crowned Sparrows (most of them Pug. St. J.Think), Savannah Sparrows, Willow Goldfinches. The Tule Wrens were in a fenced in cow pasture where there was a heavy growth of sedge grasses. The wrens could be heard, scattered through the sedges, giving their cheer, cheer - a little like the call of the W.W.Wren but lower pitched and heavier. The only way we could see them was for us to walk through the sedges toward the spot where one was calling. When too closely pressed he flew low over the sedges and then disappeared in another clump. They were light cinnamon brown above, with a white line over the eye, darker in middle of back (forward), paler below; cross bar on the tail. As I neared the point I saw a Cooper Hawk fly into a bunch of Crowned Sparrows next to the road. His tail was decidedly rounded, feet very yellow; black and white bars across the tail very decided. He did not get his bird. There were no vireos anywhere near - only low brusher - At the top of St. Reyes a Syp. Hawk was perched on the electric wire, a Redtail was perched on the top of a cliff and sails off over the ocean and a Pigeon Hawk flew close to the ocean cliff. Both the Black Phoebe and Say Phoebe were on the rocks. In the small cypress trees inside the entrance to the grounds a group of Golden-crowned Kinglets were feeding and several Yellow Warblers in immature plumage were in the cypresses. One lone Band- tailed Pigeon was on one of the highest rocks -