Cogswell 1948 33 Journal Dec. 21 (p.3) Tripman to Buttonwillow, Kern Co. Calif.-cont'd. Bied-billed Streebe - 5 (canal) Great Blue Heron - 5 (canal) Common Egret - 5 (fields) Snowy Egret - 1 (canal) Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Marsh Hawk - 3 Sparrow Hawk - 8 Killdeer - 25+ * Mourning Dove - 5 (perched in trees above grazing elk). Red-shafted Flicker - 4 * Downy Woodpecker - 1 Say's Phoebe - 1 Crow - 2 (on ? Raven) Mockingbird - 1 Robin - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 heard * Water Pipit - 2000 (est.) Loggerhead Shrike - 5 Audubon's Warbler - several common English Sparrow - in Buttonwillow Wst. Meadowlark - 35+ Red-winged Blackbird - 500+ Brewer's Blackbird - 200+ White-crowned Sparrow - 1+ * Golden-crowned Sparrow - 1 (* = entry in species) (account) - Carrizo Plain, S.F. San Luis Obispo Co. Calif. We detoured thus here on the advice of Carl Noford, who said this is the place for cranes which we want to see again. The major part of the plain is now plowed or disked - wide expanses are nothing but bare earth. Even where not turned up the soil is practically bare, and