Bird and shooting notes, v4473
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got under tree but hr flew thr lit 75 ft away. Had no gun. 10/12 Saw a Townsend's Spar. owl briars. 10/8 Saw yellow flicker by owl oak. May have been same as # seen 9/29. 10/15. Started out to find that hawk & heard a hen with her brood making a racket under a pine by quail oaks & saw a f. right above her. Got very near but hawk that I hadn't noticed flew out & I couldn't gain on him though hr lit 3 times. Shot 2 squawks out of 5 shots croquet opposits cypresses. 11/12 shot male flicker foot of lawn. 2. 8's hawk out oak. 3 feathers off a q. flying from oak, on S's fence to quail oaks, H. croptree 1 about 55yds from " " toward prints, 5. missed a