Bird and shooting notes, v4473
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Sept. 1. Quail etc open to-day but some Counties late as Oct 1st. no Rail till 1894 San Matro. Lots of quail at Fronside & a few Arizona. Saw a clove rest +2 day by Rose Ave. Sept 3 1st shot 1 dark 2d shot 1 male sharrow hawk Castro Valley. 3d shot, 1 squirrel 4th shot snuffer a flying jay R. w. Canon. Scared up about 6 quail & heard 2 calls in 4 hours. Lots hunters. A hawk string on a barb wire fence; twice size of 8/ shinned & lighter & shots darker, barn dead 2 works. (This is Cooper's hawk) (1 rather shot. #1. Buck Ware got a road runner, according to reports) Sept 10. noon. Canal at "watersier" fired at a butterball? also shag. 3d shot 2 sand parps out of about 10. all fly shots. 1 jay, hivas, F.Y. Road. 1 female flicker, dog's grave cypress: had to climb together. 1 mottled night horn, N. croquet cypresses,