Thursday Afternoon, May 16, 1940--- 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. This afternoon I was supposed to start out to Jantzen Mills to make application for a job for the summer, but on the way I stopped in to see Mr. Gilbert about the Bush Tit and Cassin Vireo nests that I had located. We went over our trip report to Council Crest and finally decided that we saw 28 different birds on the final count. I read him the reports I had written on trips taken May 11 and 12 at Woodburn. He suggested that we take a trip out to the Bird Sanctuary this afternoon and I could not very well turn him down. (You know how it is when you like to do something more than something else.) Before we left the office a Mr. Aiken came into the office to get information of flight silhouettes of the Hawks of this vicinity. We arrived at the Pittock Bird Sanctuary on west Cornell Road. It is all fenced in. We met the caretaker of the reserve who is Mr. Eliot, the author of Birds of the Pacific Coast.. The three of us made a tour around the trails of the reserve and down to the pond which had been recently rebuilt.. Mr. Eliot then went back to the house while Mr. Gilbert and I went up the trail to the higher parts of the reserve.. It is certainly beautiful back in the deep,dense, woods. While on this hike we chalked down the following birds: Robin Golden-crowned Kinglet Red-breasted Nuthatch Band-tailed Pigeon Wood Duck ( in captivity) Winter Wren Evening Grosbeak Cassin Vireo Black-throated Gray Warbler Pileolated Warbler Russet-backed Thrush (saw nest) Rusty Song Sparrow Warbling Vireo Junco Seattle Wren Oregon Chickadee Violet-green Swallow Western Tagger On the way back up to the caretaker's house, I found a dead bird laying on the lower limbs of a Grand Fir, just at the base of the hill where the shelter is, and about 50 feet from the Rock Memorial. It was a very queer bird as it had the tuberosus nose, webber feet, and was a sooty black color.. Mr. Gilbert thought it to be a Petrel, but what was a Petrel doing here in Portland? We hurried up to Mr. Eliot's house where we had him identify it for sure. We found that it was a Beal's Petrel, probably blown clear in here from the ocean by some severe storm last winter.. It seems that I have established some kind of a record as it is the third of its kind ever found in Portland or the Willamette Valley in the history of bird lore. We took the bird to Ben Hur Lampman and he is going to put an article in the paper about it along with my name being the one who found it. It should be in Friday or Saturday's Oregonian although it may not be in until next Sunday. Mr. Eliot has a female Western Tanager in his house all the time. It is very tame and will fly to my finger, hand, arm, shoulder, or head if I call it. It certainly is a wonderful thing as it supposed to be a wild, migratory bird. Mr. Eliot has a very marvelous collection of books and other literature on birds, trees, and what have you. I could spend hour on hour going through his library. Mr. Eliot has the Bird Sanctuary fixed up very. I also must make a trip through the upper and lower MacClay parks, which are just to the east of the sanctuary. Mr. Gilbert took the Petrel skin and was going to give it to Mr. Jewett. Akin--Porter Building--01661 S. W. Radcliffe-- At 3461