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Photograph by Alfred M. Bailey 
UPLAND PLOVER 
November 
3. Thousands of Snow Geese passed over. 
5. Many flocks of Cowbirds are migrating. 
15. A stray Great Blue Heron passed on down river today. 
December 
4. For the second year we have Red-breasted Nuthatches. 
10. Saw a stray Robin today. 
22. A larger flight than usual of Northern Pileated Woodpeck- 
ers is here. ) 
28. Reports from a number of farmers tell of large flocks of 
Doves and some Meadowlarks wintering about the feed troughs 
and cattle sheds. 
Notes From the West 
An excerpt from a letter written by Mary Cooper Back, former Curator 
of the Academy’s Trailside Museum. 
We had quite a strenuous spring and summer, traveling, camping 
and painting. It’s been a wonderful experience, and will furnish us 
memories enough to keep our minds busy a long time. It took us 
six weeks to get as far as Yellowstone Park, and we had two 
weeks there. We settled down in a little cabin on the Wind River 
