Field notes, v1362
Page 363
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Koopfer 1937 Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. May 25. St. Vincent is about 5 mi. N of San Rafael on the Petaluma highway. ST is on the north side of the marshes at the mouth of San Gallinas Cr. (see U.S. G. S. Petaluma sheet, ed. of 19/4). Here back of the School there is an unclaimed Salicornia area of about 20 acres. Noted here: numerous meadowlarks (1 nest with 5 eggs found in thin stand of Salicornia; black- crowned night heron (3 flying over, 1 on bank of slough, + 1 on San Rafael marsh); 4 ducks (sounded like mallards); "numerous" Bo Cliff swallows (flying over Salicornia and grass land); Song sparrows (in brush borders marsh; mourning dove (a pair flushed from marsh); Kelderer (calling from mud flats); pigeants (1 flushed and others heard - just both believed to have been used by this kind of bird were seen); crows (+ 10 on marshy ground); hyla (heard croaking and 2 seen); garter snake (2 seen); spotted skunk (1 almost ran over my sleeping bag last night.