Sunday, June 2, 1940 We were on little north fork of Santiam this morning fishing. I heard and saw a red headed Sapsucker the first thing as I was getting out of the car. I saw several kingfishers along the creek. Saw young Dippers, they were gray and almost white underneath and light brown above. They sure "teetered" a lot. I didn't see any of them go under water. Wednesday, June 5, 1940 I got up at five and went out to McCullough's place near Killian Bridge to track down a new bird. It turned out to be nothing but a Valley Quail. I walked down to the end of their Loganberry patch to a vetch field. As I turned to go back I saw what looked to be a blackbird, but upon closer scrutinization I saw there was red on it. I didn't know what it was until it lit on the top of a small tree near me. --It was a red-winged Blackbird!-- the first I had ever seen! Some thrill. Then-- to top it all off-- as I was walking back along a fence row I heard a call that I had learned in the Pittock Sanctuary-- I stopped and looked for the sender of such notes-- Another surprise -- a Western Tanager! Out in open country in a small tree between two fields of grain. I also heard a bird th that goes : whichichee! whichichee! whichichee! I'll look it up when I get time. Thursday, June 6, 1940 I was sitting in the back yard this evening listening to my radio and watching the swallows catch insects when I heard a cry that I had not heard for two years,-- a Pacific Nighthawk. It was flying high into the sky, fold its wings and drop toward earth. I also saw Rusty sparrows, English Sparrows, Cassins Vireo, Yellow Warbler, Rufous Hummingbird, Flicker, Robin, and White-breasted [illegible] Nuthatch.