Cogswell 1948 32 Journal Dec. 21 - (p.2) along the canal near highway US. 399 bridge the following birds were seen: Great Blue Heron - 2 (Am.) Common Egret - 3 Snowy Egret - 3 Mallard - 1 & flew up & circled overhead repeatedly. Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Coot - 1 Song-billed Marsh Wren - | heard. English & Song Sparrows. at the preserve itself we drove in the road which crosses the canal just E of Tupman & looked around the picnic area (with somewhat tumbledown buildings) & along canal bank in willows there. we found no elk here, but tallied a few birds [see below] and drove out again to just NW of Tupman where elk were grazing or resting all across the flats inside the fence but on highway side of the willow bordered canal. [See entry under Cervus nanodes]. The following birds were also noted either in self preserve itself or along the road from Tupman to Buttonwillow vicinity, the land in this area being irrigated farmland with either ripe cotton or green alfalfa now on it: