November 30, 1946. Pudding River Bottoms, Woodburn to Mt. Angel. 1 to 5 p.m. Hooded Merganser - female - flushed from under Pudding R. bridge south of Gervais. Flew 150 yards upstream, lit, erected crest, and gave series of coarse, guttural croakish call notes. Then I flushed it again and it ran on the water before taking off. It circled and came back over me, flying with very rapid wingbeats, and having the appearance of "falling forward", probably because of the set-back wings, I guess. Cooper Hawk - just one seen over a flooded area near the river. Spar row Hawks - One pair flushed from wire lines along a stubble field. Valley Quail - a covey of 12 or 15 birds were either "dusting" or feeding on gravel at the edge of the road east of Gervais. Western Gull - a single immature flew steadily upstream along the river course. Mourning Doves - small flocks seen at the edge of the road, or in old corn fields. Flickers - common, averaging at least 20 or 25 to the mile. Most on the ground when flushed. Oregon Chickadees - two of them busy pecking hard at the limbs of a Yew Tree. Allowed approach within 5 feetof them. Winter Wren - singing from a vine maple twig. Others seen, but they weren't singing Seattle Wren - feeding under blackberry bushes in company with Towhee and Fox Sparrow Brewer's Blackbirds: 300 or more on the ground at 430 at edge of a flooded field. Juncos - 100's seen along the roads and in the bushes. Nearly every foot of fence rows has its Juncos. Golden-crowned Sparrows - many large flocks seen in the fence rows. Probably saw 2 or 300 of them today. Pine Siskins - flushed a flock of 250+of them from the top of a Red Cedar tree and they circled and returned to the tree. I repeated the performance. OregonTowhee - working in harmony with a Fox Sparrow and Seattle Wren under a blackberry bush. Fox Sparrow - mentioned above. Dec. 9, 1946 - Corvallis, Oregon 1030 a.m. Black Pigeon Hawk - one seen in a magnolia or tulip tree at 163 & Van Buren. It flew, finally, leading into the wind to gain altitude, & then looped around & went south east with the wind. Robins - There has been a decided absence of them this past month, but they were present today in droves & flocks. In a half hour I saw at least 400 of them here & there on the north side of Corvallis. Dec. 14, 1946 - Woodburn - 100's of Robins in the area now. Evidently this last storm & present cold wave brought them in from the north. Dec. 24, 1946 - Woodburn - 11 a.m. Foggy, calm, cold. Long Tailed Jay - carrying berries of Pyracantha in its bill. Buried another object under P. orford Cedar like Audubon used to do. Fox Sparrow - In Arizona Cypress Seattle Wren - In own laurel ledge Song Sparrow Flicker Cedar Waxwings feeding on Pyracantha berries Robins common.