KDixon 1951 Sitta pygmaea July 15. Inverness Ridge, Marin [illegible] County, Calif. OVERCAST; LIGHT VARIABLE Breeze. (Area on ridge W of Shell Beach but on Tomaloe Bay slope.) Woodland chiefly of pine with scattered lower live oak and madrone. Many scattered dead trees standing & fallen. I hunted for half an hour, before in woods too open before locating nuthatch in protected slope at 2:10. One individual seen foraging above, working down branches for most part; gave nasal chip once perhaps in alarm at my presence (It had flown to branch above me; shifted out of sight after giving note). However call wi - bi...dick given in tumby 3 birds in area (presumably nuthatches) I was able to see only one however. I left at 2:25. Other birds noted in woodland (understory included hazel, poison oak, [illegible] reproduction of taller trees): Western Flycatcher Scrub Jay Chestnut-bled Chickadee Wren - tit Bewick Wren Violet-green Swallow Brown - Creeper American Goldfinch Spotted Towhee Hawk Flicker White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow Purple Finch (singing) Bush - tit Yellow Warbler This assemblage includes a considerable number of hole-nesting species; many dead pine tree standing however