Field notes: Eastern United States return trip through Canada and Northwest United States, San Diego trip,1916, and second Eastern United States trip "via northwest", v4546
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Nov. 7, in Utah At Ogden, Utah, 6:45 to 9 a.m. Many english Sparrows along the streets; we valued. West out of Ogden, saw very many Magpies and some Blackbirds Brewer?). Mrs. S. & I. took pencil census on both sides of train across Great Salt Lake -- or rather, we were prepared to, at all we got, from Promontory Point clear west, to the west end of the trestle, 9:33 to 10:30, was 26 California Gulls near "Mid- where", mostly sitting on the water where pigeons had been thrown overboard, 'duck flying, and one Raven, at west end of trestle. Day clear, cool but not freezing; water glossy smooth. Approaching Montello saw a Golden eagle in circling flight; also Ravens settled along. Over the Volley Pass region, where are tracts of junipers and pinyons, there was thin snow lying in shaded places. A train man said it had been 10° below zero somewhere near Wells earlier in the week. Along the Humboldt Valley bottomlands, west from Wells to Yolo (when it came to get dark) the birds seen most continuously were Magpies -- or from exterminated! Next were Ravens, this not as many as I think I've seen before; one Flicker. Nov. 8: Arrived Berkeley at 7:30 a.m.