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  • 6 Ian McT. [McTaggart] Cowan 1935 Island View Beach. Saanich, V.I. [Vancouver Island], B.C. [British Columbia] Sept. [September] 27, 1935 Stretch of pebbly beach about 3 miles long. on a sheltered coast facing James Island. On the land side is a considerable stretch of salt meadow with occasional slough holes. Along the beach are large numbers of drift logs + pile of rotting kelp; in a narrow belt about 100 yards from the shore is a strip of brush composed almost entirely of briar, spirea + wild crab apple. Some snowberry. Birds seen 1 Baird Sandpiper 6 Black turnstones 5 Flickers 10+ Meadowlarks 18 Quail 2. Hungarian Partridge 3. Pheasant 5 Song sparrows. 1. Bewick Wren 4. Oregon Towhee 6. Purple Finches 10 + Robins 2. Audubon Warbler The Purple finches, Flickers + Robins were eating crab apples to the exclusion of the other types of
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