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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.