April 28, 1942 Avery Park -- 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Cloudy and clear. Windy, and warm. English Sparrow Robin Cassin Vireo Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Slender-billed Nuthatch McGillivray's Warbler Band-tailed Pigeon Rufous Hummingbird Wood Duck -- Pair of them stuck very close to a small pond south of the park in the woods, where very few people go by it. Violet-green Swallow Valley Quail Oregon Chickadee Killdeer Western Evening Grosbeak (It wasn't active at the nest this afternoon.) Oregon Junco Chipping Sparrow Audubon Warbler Green-backed Goldfinch China Pheasant May 4, 1942 -- Corvallis: Kenneth Walker reported to me that he watched a pair of Adult Audubon's bringing food to their young in a fir tree in front of his residence. May 5, 1942 -- 10:30 a.m. College Farm west of Corvallis 1 mile. Weather perfect. With Charles Cutress. We went to this location to look at a Sparrow Hawk nest that was 30 or 35 feet up in an Oak tree. It was in a rotten stub on the south side of the tree. The female flew just as we got to the tree. We found 5 young, varying in size with each one. They were covered with a fine down, of a dull white color. The parents were diving on us and screaming while we were at the nest. Took the young out for a picture and while they were perched on a log one of them cut loose, and there was no fecal sac around the material. They were 4 or 5 days old according to Charles Cutress. Other birds seen included: Western Evening Grosbeak Lutescent Warbler Chipping Sparrow English Sparrow Western Red-tail Hawk Flicker Willow Goldfinch Meadowlark Violet-green Swallow Turkey Vulture Robin Crow Vesper Sparrow Brewer Blackbird Puget Sound Sparrow Cooper Hawk -- Soared over the tree where the Sparrow Hawk nest was and both of the parents took to the air and proceeded to peck, dive, and chase the larger Cooper's hawk out of the area. He lost several feathers. Vaux Swift -- We got a good look at a pair of them flying fairly low near us They are the first that I have seen this year. May 5, 1942: 12-mile Swamp south of Corvallis 1:30 to 5 p.m. Weather perfect with slight wind. Razing up in the later afternoon. With Charles Cutress Red-wing Blackbird -- I would say that there were several hundred of them in the swamp this period. In our walk around the swamp we must have found over 100 of their nests. Some of them were ready for eggs at any time, others had either 1, 2, 3, or the full set of 4 eggs in the nests. The eggs are a pale blue with reddish brown splotches. By the end of the week there should be eggs in most of the nests. Mourning Dove: Several pairs of these were flushed from the edges of the swamp where there were lots of ash trees and brush present. Pheasant Coot -- Several of them in the area. Canada Goose -- Flushed a single from the swamp and it then flew over the hill toward another swamp. Later on a long string of 125 or 150 of them flew over going north. This evening there were several bands heard as they flew over Corvallis. Sora Rail -- Found three or four of them acting very [illegible] in the brush near the edge of the swamp. Found foundation of a new nest that is either for Virginia Rails or for Sora Rails, Will know later.