Archives West Finding Aid

This is a collection of birding field data, gathered and compiled by Clark Blake from approximately 1975-2013. The collection comprises booklets of field data, plus a small number of birding maps for areas documented by Blake, including California, Southwestern Arizona, and Western Washington. Originally from San Francisco, Clark Blake (1932-2017) was a U.S. Geological Survey geologist and avid ornithologist. He traveled extensively throughout his life, but was resident for many years in the San Francisco Bay area and Great Valley, and retired to Bellingham, Washington in 1993. The field data booklets typically include checklists of species, with Clark's annotations re: specific places, dates and times of counts, as well as the number of species documented.