Field catalogue #250-550, journal, and species accounts, v1706
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Journal 7 Eves and Color Canyons, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles Co., California Elevations: Eves Canyon 2500 feet; Color Canyon (800 feet) April 7 Band-Tailed Pigeon Hermit Thrush - singing? CC (cont) Mourning Dove American Robin Grand Herons Oak Wrentit White-throated Swift-4/0, CC California Thrasher Anna's Hummingbird Fluttois Vireo Green Woodpecker Orange-crowned Warbler Nutlock's Woodpecker Audubon's Warbler Pacific Slope Flycatcher Black-billed Cuckoo Scout Jay Reynolds-sided Towhee Pine Titmouse California Towhee Bustit Gray Sparrow Dunck's Chen N. (Billard's) Siskin Harris Chen Lesser Goldfinch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Salt River southwest of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona April 8 I drove last night from Pomona, California to Goodyear, Arizona, a west-side suburb of Phoenix, via Interstate 10. I slept for a few hours on the frontage road adjacent to the freeway, awaiting first light to complete my drive to the Salt River on Phoenix's southwest side. Dr. Conrado Roe of the San Diego Natural History Museum had suggested this as a favorable place to collect goldfinches. The river between 91st Avenue and 115th Avenue, opposite the Glen Arrow Reser- vation on the south bank, has developed a substantial riparian woodlands in the last 10-15 years; kept going in dry times by effluent from the Phoenix sewage treatment plant at 91st Avenue. I made calls at