Copswell 1949 Journal (p.3) Feb.6- Gray Lodge State Game Refuge, southwestern Butte Co., Calif., and immediate vicinity. From about 10 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. we drove or stopped & looked from car or afoot, slowly along part of the roads within the refuge and I estimated the birds seen at the end of our 3 hrs. The absence of any large concentration here is ex- plained by Mr. Cowan, the refuge mana- ger, by the fact that the ducks, geese, & swans are all spread out over the valley - feeding and resting wherever they find feeding good, now that there is no disturbance from hunters. Snow goose & diving ducks are more plenti- ful in the refuge because of greater dependence upon water. The weather was increasingly cloudy, with very dark stratus clouds yielding drizzle of rain by noon & general steady rain by 1 P.M. There was a cold wind blowing & consequently we saw little in the way of land birds. The area is a wonderful one for cat-tail & tule marsh + small open water areas, adjacent fields, which I suppose are planted to grain earlier, and with nearby cottonwood & willow trees & open oak grassland not far away near the Butte.