October 20, 1940 MacDonald Forest Corvallis, Oregon 31 Weather: Cool, and very wet. We were up in clouds most of time. This morning Eldon and I left here at 9 A. M. and walked down to 9th street where we hitched a ride out to the Arboretum in record time. It was raining hard when we left, but we had already made our plans and we are not to be so easily taken aback. We had a very uneventful hike until we reached the road above the forestry school cabin. We hiked from the Arboretum back along the ridge of the mountain until we were 6 miles due west of Corvallis, then we came down from the ridge. We hiked better than 12 miles altogether. Birds seen were: Golden-crown Kinglet Seattle Wren Varied Thrush Robin Great Horned Owl X Bird Brewers Blackbird Kingfisher Song Sparrow Winter Wren Towhee Red-breasted Nuthatch Flicker Junco Stellar Jay Blue Darter (Cooper) Chestnut-back Chickadee Pheasant Pileated Woodpecker Bush Tit Mallard Duck California Jay *and ???* Meadowlark Chickadee Hungarian Partridge Killdeer Ruby-crown Kinglet Blue Heron Marsh Wren Western Warbler Soon after we had climbed up the hill above the forestry cabin we came face to face with a 8 or 9 point buck with its doe. It turned sharply, flapped its white and black tail and they leaped into the brush and disappeared. We went on for another quarter of a mile and I spotted two little fawns up the road about 100 feet, but they were hard to see because the clouds were so thick on this part of the mountain. We got within about 70 feet of them and then stood still. They then moved closer but we could not get a picture of them. After about 5 minutes of standing and waiting I was surprised to see another deer come around the bend in the road--it was the doe. She walked directly toward us for about 20 feet and then she stopped and warily watched us. I waved my hanky like a white-tail but she wouldn't come any closer. Then all of a sudden she turned and bounded back up the road and leaped down over the side of the mountain, closely followed by the two fawns. We ran up there but they had disappeared. * On the last leg of our hike we were about 1 1/2 miles west of the gate across the Oak Creek road when Eldon and I came right into the middle of what seemed to be bushes literally alive with very small birds. We stopped and watched. There were Oregon Chickadees, Ruby-crown Kinglets, Juncos, Towhees, Chestnut-back Chickadees(first I had ever seen), Gray Bush Tits, and a small bird about the size of the Kinglet, shaped like them; This bird had a black beak, and black color around the eyes. The upper parts were a sort of blue lead-gray color being darker on the top of head and neck. The underparts were definitely a light gray or pure white. There seemed to be white in the tail feathers on the under side. This bird hung upside down and every which way on the bush. There must of have been four or five hundred small birds in the immediate vicinity.