Field notes, v4394
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Farnjar Grade. Stopped at Meadow Club for half an hour. On bay: Calif, Western, Glaucous-winged and one Bonaparte Gull. Farallone Cormorants and Western Grebe (in flight) and many Surf Scoters and a large raft of Canvasbacks near San Quentin Point. At Ollema in bare trees (willows etc. on edge of marshy meadow) birds were very abundant: Calif & Coast Jay, Turkey Buzzards, Grows, Phecker, 1 Willm Woodpecker, Black Chachas, Chickadees, Wrentits, Ruby-cr. King lets, Audubon Warblers, Song Sparrows, Golden-crowned, Baudrel, and Nuttall Sparrows, Blue Grosbeaks, Purple Finches, Luints, Brown and Spotted Towhees, Robins and Varied Thrushes. An im. Varied Thrush perched high in the willow, answered my call as I imitated his note. Between Ollema and Bolinas Bluebirds and juncos were numerous, several Sparrow Hawks were seen. At Bolinas Bay a brown hawk with white patches on the wing was perched on a fence post (sp.? ) Fifteen white Pelicans floated on the water besides numerous gulls and a few ducks i - Bluebills, Ruddy, Canvas back and Mergansers (?) Two Black-crowned Eared Grebes, Coats, Night Herons and several St. Blue Herons and a few Killdeer were seen and a Kingfisher was pushing from the top of a stick by Breuer's gulls birds and me following as we left the bay - in the water. Along the road over the grade a Redtail was perched on the top of a lone tree but sailed off when we Coots were near the road stopped-n At the Meadow Club many Bluebirds, a Shrike and juncos and Crowned Sparrows and many hundreds of trovis were seen. Along the way at different places we saw flocks of meadowlarks and quail were heard. 52 sp.