Note: Feb. 6, 1941 Var Western Evening Grosbeak flock in Corvallis Jack's Bridge February 9, 1941 Weather cold, cloudy, windy, and rainy. Overcast. Cooper Hawk Rusty SongSparrow Meadowlark Blackbird 4 Chestnut-back Chickadee **Horned Owl Bluebird, West Flicker White-breast Nuthatch Robin Winter Wren Crow Junco *Pileated Woodpecker ***Coast Bush Tit Golden-crown Kinglet 6 Mourning Dove California Creeper Killdeer 5 Harris Woodpecker White-crown Sparrow Gardiner Woodpecker English Sparrow Sparrow Hawk Varied Thrush * We had just a passing glimpse of him this time as he flew across a clearing between two patches of woods on the other side of the creek. We heard him call several times after that, however. ** We scared up this horned owl again in about the same place we did before Christmas. I still haven't gotten to see one on the set. *** There were lots of these bush tits all round us on several instances. They would come within 5 or 6 feet of us. Golden-crown Kinglets were flying with them. 4 There were more Chestnut-back Chickadees in the woods today than I have ever seen before at one time. 5. There was a pair of Harris Woodpeckers in an Oak tree and they were so busy at their rapping and tapping that we got just as close as we could to them, and still not be up in the tree. There plumage seemed to be in excellent condition for this season of the year. A little later on we saw a pair of Gardiner Woodpeckers chasing each other around in the Oak tree and acting very much as if spring were here. However, I think it is a little early for that. 6. We saw a flock of Mourning Doves numbering about 60 or 70. Within a quarter of a mile of the car I spotted a pile of twigs about ten feet up in a fir tree. They had rather a odd shape and so I jumped up and got hold of the limb and pulled it down. Virgil Lamb took a long stick and poked the nest off the limb. I found that it had a roof over it and the entrance hole was in the side of the dome. The base foundation was made up of 1/8" twigs that were a foot and a half long and laid crosswise so as to not fall apart. The dome and floor, and side of the main part of the nest seemed to be made of maple leaves and a few fine sticks. The inside was very finely formed and lined with maple leaves. FRONT VIEW 12" 5" 4" NEEDLES MAPLE TWIGS + LEAVES DOOR TWIGS SIDE 6" 18" FRONT 4" TWIGS