Sept. 15, 1940 This morning I was out mowing our lawn when I heard a peculiar Kay ee cry from the birch across the street from our house. I saw the bird clear up in the top and called to mother to bring the field glasses. As luck would have it the light was wrong and all I could see was the outline of the bird way up there. It flew and I chased about 1/2 a block into an Oak tree. Here I saw that the tail was long and rounded, the underparts were grayish in color--and then it flew away again. This time two blocks farther into a grove of chestnut trees. My young friend, Herbert Gill, was with me by this time and we took out after it on the run. We looked in all the trees and could not find it. Then we saw it fly into the top of a big Black Walnut tree and fortunately for us the light was right and we stood across the street from the tree and had a good look at it before it finally flew away. I came home and looked it up and found it to be a California Jay, the nearest that I can figure it out. It is the second one that I have seen near Woodburn this summer. (Other on May 18, 1940 Report.) Sept. 16, 1940 Again this morning I was out working in the yard when I heard an absolutely new song that I had never heard before coming from the holly bush across the street from home. Well, I immediately dropped all my tools and proceeded to sneak up on that tree and find out what was in there. It was a Seattle Wren, and I never would have guessed it be its song. Mr. Gilbert, of Portland, took me on a field trip one day and showed me the Seattle Wren and told me about the song but we were unable to here any that day, so this was the first time that I had heard a Seattle Wren sing. Also today I saw Western Tanager, Chickadee, Vireo, Violet Green Swallow, Nighthawk, and above all noticed a very conspicuous absence of Mr. Robin Red Breast. During the past three weeks I have been working in the cannery and have not done any bird study at all and had not noticed during what week the Robins decided to leave us for the summer. Many times this summer there has been as many as 30 or 40 Robins in our yard at the same time! Believe it or not! That is the actual truth by actual count.