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Cogswell
1949
Journal
34
Apr.24 - Arroyo Moths to Mt. Hamilton, Alameda & Santa Clara Co.
Calf.(cont.) The SW facing slope of the canyon is more open,
of grassland or oak parkland nature, at
the edge of which we ate lunch. Beyond this the
road goes thru miles - miles of oak woodland
with Digger Pine abundant at higher altitudes.
Stops made after lunch were brief & included areas of
woodland, chaparral (on red soils at)
Quaternary?
Transition zone Black Oak forest near the summit of
Hamilton. Birds observed are listed below: sp.acct. *
*= see
Species
Sycamore
-oak
"wash"
open
oak-
grassland
Blue oak
digger pine
chap.
at
mid.altit.
Adenostoma
High chap.
forest
(near summit)
Cathartes aura
accipiter sp?
1
Butio jamaicensis
aquila chrysaetos (?)
2
3
1
Falco sparverius
2 pr.
10+
Sophora californica
1 pr.
1 (farm pond)
Charadrius vociferus
1 pr.
Zenaidura macroura
10+
hummingbird sp? (archilobus?)
1?
Colaptes cafer
2
Dendroopos metalli
5+
myiarchus cinerascens
2 pr.
Sagornis migrans
1 pr.
1 heard
Tachycineta thalassina
10+
Hirundo rustica
2
Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
many
Cyanocitta Stelleri
1
Apelocomus ceruleoscent
2
several
Rica muttelli
2+
2
Corvus brachyrhynchos
1
1 (farm
in valley)
Parus inornatus
1
2
15+
3
Troglodytes aedon
1
2
Tirymanos bewicki
1
3
Aphostoma redivivum
1
Sialia mexicana
15+
Colaptes caeruleus
2
3+
Phainopepla nitens
2?, 1?
1 (heard)
Vireo solitarius
sellos
vermibora celata
Dendroeca auduboni
2
1 heard?
nigrescens
""
oporornis tolmiei
1?