Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1959 20 Journal June 18 Metcalf Bay spit, sea level, Tillamook Co., Oregon Long-tailed Marsh Wrens, Redwing, along the spit are White-crowned Savannah Sparrow, both common, the latter rare so, and a few Acer Goldfinch. Also saw Common Loon, Great Blue Heron, Crow, Killdeer, Western Gull and also a light-backed Gull, not identified, Cedar Waxwing. Also one pair of Violet-green Swallows. Toward the end if the spit (away from the path) there is a large fir (?) forest, trees not too high, but very dense. I could not get them at the place I tried to enter. Here saw Mourning Dove and heard Winter Wren, which I also heard this morning. There were Orange- crowned Warblers singing on the spit, in rather unusual, I felt, habitat for them. There are deer here-saw one- and many tailband tracks. It was sunny and quite warm on the spit for much of the afternoon, but windy. The fog hung on the hills just across the bay, just a few hundred feet high, but there was blue sky over me. June 19 Spent today in camp, shinning the birds I got yesterday. But 16 done have to do tomorrow morning. It has been overcast & dark allday, not warm but still comfortable. Saw a chipmunk in camp.