Collector: Grinnell - 1925?
Location: to Colnett, Sat. 31 degrees
?Date: Oct. 28?
Page Number: 2608
6642 Savannah Sparrow (female sign) im. 16.7g. Shot in salicornia.
6642 “ “ (female sign) im. 16.8.g. Shot in stem of clump of juncos.
Was out early 5:15 to 6:30, and again 9:20 to 11:30, the last time to the
beach, the bluff, and the salt flats. Saw following birds: Turkey Vulture
(4+); Poorwill (heard calling last evening); Valley Quail (2 large coneys
near camp); Cactus Woodpecker (one heard); Say Phoebe (2); Anna
Hummer (2, around blossoming Lycium); Brown Towhee (4+); Spotted
Towhee (2); Rufous-crowned Sparrow (2); Intermediate Sparrow (12±);
Calif. Thrasher (2, singing); Linnet (6±); Wren-tit (4+); Black-Tailed
Gnatcatcher (2); Bewick Wren (2); Red-winged Blackbird (a pair visited
camp, and others in small companies in flight out in the valley); Raven
(within hearing most of the time); Meadowlark (4 or more, out in salt flat);
Marsh Wren (common, a dozen or more, in dense mats of salicornia
(unknown 1) sloughs just back of the cobble-stone beach-barrier (which is
fully 8 feet higher than the flats inland from it)); Savannah Sparrow (scattered
troupes on open ground among small bushes back from the salicornia);
Belding and Large-billed Sparrows (on salicornia marshes, not many,
the latter also on beach at high-tide line of drift); Pipit (flock of 10±m bare
alkali flat); Killdeer (one heard - the only wader, where we saw so many on
the beach when we were here in September); Song Sparrow (2, in big juncos
clumps up the valley from the salicornia. Of (unknown 2), I saw one Jack Rabbit
on salt flat and 2 or more Brush Rabbits.