April 9, 1947, Poison Oak Lake, Linn Co., 4 mi. E of Corvallis 915-1045 a.m. Strong SW wind, sc atterea RM-, 1500 Brkn. Vulture - 3 circled over. Mallards - 2 flew over, calling. Valley Quail - a covey of them in poison oak, and rose-briar. Killdeer - a couple Flicker - one calling loudly from a snag. Violet-green Swallow - a few feeding over the lake and fir timber. Long-tailed Jay - 2 in the area. Ore on Chickadee - a pair were nest building in an ash tree near the road. One sat by while the other busily attached the wood, making a hole. Slender-billed Nuthatch - saw 2 in fir and oak. Robin - one Ruby-crowned Kinglet - singing and scolding Calaveras Warbler - lst of the year, feeding among poison oak and service berry. Yellow breast and sides were plain. Also could see the eye-rine and gray head. Quite tame allowing my approach with 15 feet of it. Feeding at 3 feet. Sang. Yellow Warblers - 2 singing from tops of oak and ash near the lake. Meadowlark - 1 heard. Towhee - M & F everywhere in the brush. Junco - pair building a nest on the ground in moss at the base of a Rosa rubiginosa on the SE side, close to the stems, with a full canopy over it. They allowed very close approach they were so engrossed in their activities. Song Sparrows - quite a few. April 10, 1947, N. Cemetery Hill, Corvallis, via Alta Vista Rd., 3-445 p.m. Clear, W 10- Valley Quail - flushed 4 from an oak thicket, in pasture lands. Mountain Quail - flushed a pair from brush in the D. Fir clearing atop Dixon Cr. ridge, and then flushed 2 more farther down the south slope in the oak. Pheasants - Cocks could be heard crowing in almost every direction on farmlands. Ruffed Grouse - a single flushed from a clump of Sweet Briar beside a small creek, in a valley, running thru a pasture area. Killdeer - acouple were heard. Flicker - 4 of them flushed from the ground in a flooded meadow. They flew into oak. Violet-green Swallows - a couple flew over high. Oregon Chickadees - a pair making plenty of noise in a rose thicket, and later I came across a roving-feeding flock of about 18 birds, in the oak scrub. Chestnut-backed Chickadees - working thru a rose-scrub oak-young D. fir pasture. Brown Creeper - a couple were heard in the timber. Slender-billed Nuthatch - 1 seen, and 3 others heard. Robins - 2 flew over. Hermit Thrush - working the underbrush at the edge of the young D. Fir, and Oak. Seemed quite tame this time. There were two of them. Ruby-crowned Kinglets - plenty heard thruout the oak and fir this p.m. One pair were busy feeding, and fed on insects in a hazel within 5 feet of me. Golden-crowned Kinglets - 3 or 4 working thru hazel and young fir near the timber. Pipits - a flock of 5 flew over. Hutton's Vireos - 3 were in about 1 acre of timber, busily calling to each other, and working toward each other at the same time. Two different notes used. Audubon Warblers - working both oak, and in the fir. W. Meadowlarks - a few. Evening Grosbeaks - a flock of 4, and one of 20 flew over, heading NW. Purple Finch - singing from a D. Fir. Willow Goldfinch - a few flew over, and others in the oak scrub, and on the ground. Towhee - a pair feeding within 8 feet or so of me, didn't know I was there. Junco - a pair feeding, or gathering grass in a rose pasture area. Golden-crowned Sparrow - a single one perched on a wire line at the bottom of the hill, and calling for all it was worth. Why??? Song Sparrow - several seen. All seem in full, rich, and deep plumage now.