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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.