January 5, 1940 Corvallis, Oregon. Weather: Cold wind, rain, sunshine, very irregular. Eldon and I went out to the hills just north and west of Uncle Bob's house. These hills didn't have much cover as they were just Oak trees, poison oak, and scotch broom. Sheep ran on part of them. There were creeks in the bottoms between the hills. Birds seen were: *Sparrow Hawk Junco ****Dusty Horned Owl Flicker ***Lewis Woodpecker Meadowlark Robin Oregon Chickadee Seattle Wren **Western Bluebird Slender-billed Nuthatch 6-Golden-Crown Kinglet Towhee China Pheasant (3) Brewer's Blackbird Killdeer ****Wilson Snipe Cooper Hawk * On the way to the hills I saw a Sparrow Hawk swoop in a dive to the ground about 25 feet ahead of us. It missed whatever it went after and climbed to gain altitude and then it hovered over that spot for awhile. Then it glided down wind about twenty feet and hovered above another spot. At this time it went for 3 or 4 seconds without moving its tail or wings and stayed in one place. First time I have ever seen one stay in one spot without wingbeats. ** On the top of the first hill we scared up a whole flock of Western Bluebirds. There must have been 75 to 100 of them. There were Juncos with them. *** I saw the first Lewis Woodpeckers that I have seen for some long time. They were flying from the top of one hill to the other. **** As we were returning to the road we walked by a small lake in an adjacent field when all of a sudden, WHAM ! and a Wilson Snipe jumped up and twisted its way across the field to the edge of a slough. We through rocks over there and scared it up again. It flew towards a telephone pole about 10 feet above ground and just before it got to the pole it flew straight up and then over the pole and then it circled back to still another small pond. ***** As we were hiking down a small valley literally filled with swamps, sloughs, etc. I looked up in time to see a Dusky Horned Howl circle out from a clump of Mistletoe-covered Oaks and slowly flap its way over the crest of the hill and disappear. ****** There was one place in the valley mentioned above where the bushes were alive with Golden-crowned Kinglets, Seattle Wrens, and Chickadees. The stripes on the head of the Kinglets were very predominant. Also saw a Hornet's Nest in a Sweet Briar Bush.