Field notes, v4394
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Redwood Highway June 15-19, 1933 June 17. Took lunch with us and drove to Eureka and toward Crescent City. Stopped about noon on bluff above ocean. Ground covered with grass & wild blue iris. Breguluni came all about us, young in grass near where we sat down. Singing constantly. Apricots on sunny slopes near Trinidad sep. Rhododendrons under redwoods last few miles in Humboldt Co. - Returned to Weymouth Inn for the night. Beautiful clear day - Cool. 2 hours before we left. Cloudy part of day - Cool. June 18. Sunday. Left Weymouth at 9 a.m. Picnic lunch on S. Fork of Eel river near Hickey Grove. Managers there. Then to Utrahs, Clear Lakes and Clear Lake. Spent night at Clear Lake Lodge on N. E. corner of the upper lake. Cool wind. June 19. Left the Lodge about 9 a.m. drove along eastern side of lake stopping at Auntie's on Lower Lake; then across to the town of Lower Lake and Middleton. Then over a very bad road to Pope Valley where we ate our lunch and over Howell Mt. to the town of St. Helena. Reached home 5 p.m. Birds seen on Trip: W. Grebes ab. on Clear Lake, calling frequently even during night. The proprietor of the Lodge told me they nested early, young are nearly grown now. When out in a motor boat he had often come upon a family (usually 2 ygs). The father dives but the mother swims with the young on her back even when the boat comes very near. Fallow Goose - 1 on Clear Lake in front of Lodge; 1 farther south. Gull - Caty? Several seen in non-plumage. .. - Northern Western Gulls off shore toward Crescent City. Marble lighter. Kelder in Pope Valley. St. Blue Heron - many on Clear Lake. Black-crowned Night Heron - many on Clear Lake. Red-tailed Hawks - several. One near Eureka mobbed by Blackbirds. Sparrow Hawk. Marin, Sonoma & Lake Counties.