Brook Lane and Avery Park 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Corvallis, Oregon, Sunday, September 31, 1940 Weather was warm and very hazy, not able to see the coast mountains at all. I walked out to Uncle Bill's place this afternoon and had a long talk with them, and then I decided to go out on a bird walk so off I w ent. Bill and Dorothy used to take pictures of birds, nest, etc. but in the last five years or so have not had time to do it. Birds that I saw this afternoon were not very many: Crow Sparrow Hawk Golden-crown Kinglet Flicker Meadowlark Brewer Bl ackbird Junco Vesper Sparrow Mallard Duck Robin Towhee Red-tailed Hawk* Green-back Goldfinch Oregon Chickadee I got very close to this bird as I was standing on one bank of the Mary's River he flew into a small tree on the other side and he did not see me as I was s tanding still from the minute I saw him. I watched him very closely for about three minutes and then he flew on upstream. October 4, 1940 Weather warm and hazy Corvallis Oregon. 3 p.m. I was walking home from War Drill today and I came past the big fir tree by the path through the band stand quadrangle. There on the bottom branches were several Golden-crown Kinglets feeding on the small twigs. I saw both the male and the female of the species. The golden stripes were very predominant on the head of the male bird. I got within 4 or 5 feet of them. (weaker on the female.) October 10, 1940 Corvallis Oregon 9 a.m. Fog just lifting a little bit. I am in my room at my desk trying to study when I hear the familiar squeek of the Cedar Waxwing, and my mind wanders immediately from the Zoology that I am trying to m learn. These Waxwings are flitting around and feeding in the Weeping birch tree directly across the street, so I got my glasses and proceeded to take down the following the notes: Male: Very yellowish breast. Gold bar on tail. Has crest, white lines around f/ldk/ face: Back is olive color with white streak running along 1/2 the length of the back between wings, when they are folded. Rump color is bluish. Black is marked on the face just behind the bill. Female: Underparts white and brown molted appearance( could be young bird also) no crest, brown above, gold bar on tail, white patch in middle of breast. Whitish under rump of tail. Has face markings of male also. If it wasn't for the yellow-gold bar on tip of tail I would never have recognized it as a Waxwing. It looked more like an immature sparrow.