The Season 



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the past two months, have disclosed our 

 usual residents, i. e., Magpies, Horned Larks, 

 Meadowlarks, Red-winged Blackbirds, 

 Flickers, etc., and only a sparse population 

 of our Junco winter residents. Of these last 

 the following have been seen, and all are 

 probably still here, viz., White- winged. Grey- 

 headed, Pink-sided, Slate-colored, and Shu- 

 feldt's. This array of Juncos would be, prob- 

 ably, of keen interest to a resident of the 

 East, but, to us, these birds are familiar 

 winter friends, and though greeted each year 

 with pleasure, they do not excite the com- 

 ment many other and more uncommon 

 species do. The mass of Juncos seemed to 

 reach us in a wave which spread over Denver 

 on October 20. 



There have been very few Hawks here- 

 abouts since October 15; only the Sparrow 

 Hawk and the Pigeon Hawk have been 

 noted in the city lately, and of these two 

 species, but two individuals of each have 

 been seen, and once the Marsh Hawk was 

 observed immediately outside of the city 

 limits. 



A visit to a 'Duck Club' late in October 

 gave the writer a chance to see a few water- 

 and shore-birds, and also led him to dis- 

 cover a single White-crowned Sparrow, which 

 was associating with Song Sparrows in the 

 swampy outlet of the lake. This date, Octo- 

 ber 29, is the latest record of this species in 

 this region. 



No Robins have been seen since October 

 15. Frequently it has been the case that 

 there are no Robins about Denver, but many 

 in the neighboring foothills. Friends of the 

 writer, who also are interested in birds, re- 

 port that they, too, have seen no Robins, 

 even in the foothills, and, too, that they have 

 seen very few other species. 



Several Creepers have lingered about the 

 writer's home neighborhood, the last one 

 having been seen on November 13. There 

 was a snowfall in Denver on November 8, 

 and another on November 17, but these tran- 

 sitory cold spells probably had little or no 

 effect in keeping the Creepers here. It is 

 extraordinary to have this species here so 

 long and at this time. 



If now the Great Northern Butcherbird 

 and the Mountain Chickadee be recorded as 



visiting this region during the past two 

 months, the writer will have pretty well ex- 

 hausted the list of birds seen by him in that 

 time. 



Aside from the two light snowfalls men- 

 tioned above, and one cold spell with tem- 

 peratures below 15 Fahr., the weather has 

 been of great mildness. 



Dandelions were seen in bloom in the city 

 on November 26. — W. H. Bergtold, Den- 

 ver, Colo. 



Los Angeles Region. — The migration of 

 shore-birds has held the attention of our ob- 

 servers throughout the season. A number of 

 trips were made to White's Point, where the 

 Turnstones were recorded at their usual 

 time of returning, but the Wandering Tat- 

 lers eluded us until two months after their 

 normal date of occurrence, the first record 

 coming from the rocky shores near Laguna 

 Beach early in October. A few days later, 

 October 13, four Tatlers, one Baird's Sand- 

 piper and two Long-billed Curlews were the 

 rarities on a long list that included Northern 

 Phalaropes, Western, Horned, and Eared 

 Grebes, myriads of Terns, Gulls, and Ducks, 

 a Golden Eagle, and the first Say's Phcebes 

 of the season. Mid-October was marked by 

 an immense visitation of Red Phalaropes. 

 They dotted the ocean for miles along the 

 coast and entered the harbors in vast num- 

 bers, moving fearlessly about among the 

 shipping. A group of five visited the small 

 lake in Westlake Park, three of them suc- 

 cumbing there to death from some unknown 

 cause, being found in a very emaciated con- 

 dition. Mortality was very high among the 

 great flocks, numbers being found dead 

 along the shores. Similar conditions were re- 

 ported from many points along the coast, 

 throughout the length of the state. Our ex- 

 treme dates for this remarkable visitation 

 are October 15 to November 13, when about 

 50 birds were still in the outer harbor in a 

 close group near the breakwater, some scat- 

 tering birds were on the kelp at Point Firmin, 

 and a few were at Long Beach. 



The Egrets that winter regularly about the 

 harbor district came in at about their usual 

 time, a single bird being seen in the marshes 

 in September, 2 or 3 in October, and by the 



