BIGGERS 1956 JOURNAL FOR V.C. BOTANICAL GARDENS NEAR Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA. Drove to Gardens with John Lawrence, Spence Tharpe, Bill Leslie & Rego, at 3:00 PM. So only got about 1/2 hour looking in gardens at Bldgs. Clear, cool, slight wind. Got usual bldgs more - not too much activity that time of day. When Gardens closed at 4:00 PM, looked around "Yucca" patch in front of gates and along fence bordering north of gardens but very few birds seen there. Got Rego to identify some plants that had been worrying us - Sage, Conium, Anise, Aceria, scrub(?) oak, etc. Also showed him Trillium blooming across road from Poultry Husbandry Bldg. as we were driving home. Came back at 5:00 PM. BIRDS: SHARP-SHINNED HAWK(?) - 1 Red Tailed " - 2 Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 1? (Peek! Not so sharp as that of ours back East in town) Steller Jay - 3 Scrub Jay - 2 Ch. Bk'd Chickadee - 1 (Cawing) Wren Tit - 3 Robin - 5 (No flock) Varied Thrush - 4 Hermit Thrush - 4 Ruby-Crowned Kinglet - 5 (3 of them together) Cedar Waxwing - 10 (flock, on Berryway) Brown Towhee - 1 Oregon Junco - 5 Fox Sparrow - 1 White Cr'd Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 2 Golden Cr'd Sparrow - 5