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Davis
1946
1 mi W. Hyampom, 1200 ft, Trinity Co., Calif.
June 7, 1946
Took 2 House Wrens in the willow tangles near the river. Evidently a mated pair. Noted nest containing young in an old Woodpecker hole in a Sycamore, apparently belonging to this pair. Nest hole about 10 ft above the ground. Yellow Warbler taken from an ash and a Song Sparrow from a low willow thicket. About 7:30 a.m. saw a Duck Hawk fly over, going north south, about 150 ft overhead. Taxed on ran into a flock of 100/2 Cedar Waxwings calling and working through the Cottonwoods near the river. On the way home noted a Cooper Hawk pursuing a small bird across the field. The bird flew into a tangle of brush and the Cooper Hawk flew off. In the afternoon, about 3:30, while picking up my traps, I noted a Song-tailed Chat flutter from a grape tangh into the grass. I walked toward it, and the bird flew toward me with a fluttering wing beat and lit on my left shoulder. I retrieved it and found blood spots on its breast feathers. Its lower mandible was broken and caked with dried blood. It was evidently a bird I had wounded some time before. The specimen was collected.
The following is a list of the birds noted in the border of the field: - California Quail, Yellow Warbler, Song-tailed Chat, Bewee, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Traill Flycatcher, Violet-green