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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.