September 22, 1940 Jack's Bridge on Butte Creek Weather clear and warm 6 A. M. to 9 A. M. Virgil Lamb was with me this morning. Blackbird Killdeer Meadowlark Flicker Kingfisher White-breast Nuthatch **Pileated Woodpecker Red-breasted Nuthatch Stellar Jay Mallard Duck Robin Towhee Sparrow Hawk Varied Thrush Western Wren Song Sparrow Junco *** Seattle Wren Chickadee *Hungarian Partridge * As we were coming back on the ridge we scared up a covey of about 15 of them in stump land near the edge of the woods. *** Heard S. Wren give beautiful song for about 3 minutes today. (1st Time) ** The thrill of the whole trip! We followed it for better than a half mile within 50 feet of it all the time. It sure is all that it is cracked up to be and some to boot. Beautiful bird--very conspicuously designed for the woods. We hiked up the creek from the bridge to the dam and looked for Water Ouzel nest but it was too dark under the dam to find one. From there we hiked on up the creek for about 1/2 mile to a small fenced off orchard and then we climbed the ridge to the east and went back to the bridge along the top of this ridge. It was as we were climbing up near the top of this ridge that we first heard the curk curk curk curk of the Pileated Woodpecker and then we got to see it the rest of the hike back to the car. One feature that we noted was that early in the morning the birds follow and abound in the spots where the sun is shining and stay away from the early morning shady spots. While we were killing a little time waiting for more sunshine I happened to find what looked like a nest sticking out from under a loose piece of bark on a snag. So it was-- we dragged a lot of logs together and piled them up at the foot of this snag so that we could climb up and get a look at this nest that was about 9 feet above the ground (just a little too high for me) The nest was under this piece of loose bark that was about 14 inches long and about 8 inches wide. At the base the bark was about 3 or 4 inches from the trunk of the snag and there was a limb running from the trunk at right angles to the bark. The nest was built up from this limb with rather coarse twigs, as most of the area under the bark was filled up with. There was a small nest about 2 inches across that was used by the birds after it had filled up an opening about 10 inches high to keep out wind and rain. The loose bark was on the west side of the snag. The nest part had leaves in it but was not very finely built. [illegible]