8 - 12 - 47 — Scrub Oak Valley, N. Cemetery Hill, Corvallis, 1400-1500, Clear Warm Vultures flying over Valley Quail – flushed from thick clump Little Flycatchers – they are very common, & call a great deal Flickers Long-tailed Jays Oregon Chickadees Slender-billed Nuthatches Seattle Wrens ebd Waxwing Yellow Warbler G. W. Tanagers Long Sparrows 694 August 13, 1947, "Poison Oak" Lake, 3 miles East of Corvallis, in Linn Co. 10-11 a.m. Blue Heron – one immature bird sailed into the N end of the lake while I was there Wood Ducks – flushed 2 (a pair) from the east side of the lake, among the pond lilies. Pheasants – walked up the length of the dried inlet slough, and flushed 7 ahead of me. Sora Rail – Flushed one bird from the marshy margin among the pond lilies on the SE side. It flew without a sound for about 75 feet before alighting in other pond lilies. Mourning Doves – 2 pair in the area. Flushed one adult from the vicinity of a nest located in a "pois on-oak pasture". The nest was situated atop an old D. Fir stump about 22" high, with a small oak 1 foot NE of the stump, and a clump of poison oak shading it from the Sand W. The nest was a shallow saucer with a few dried twigs placed in it. There was one young that will be ready to fly in a few days for it can already use its wings well. About 5½" long, with a general gray-brown color. Primaries about 3" long, tail feathers 3" long, with the white outer feathers already showing. Even when it beat its wings and I picked it up, it kept its breast inflated. Banded #41-354648. Female gave "wounded act" when she left the nest vicinity. This nest was located not over 100' from one I found this last spring atop another D. Fir stump. Could be the same nesting pair, I'd guess. Oh, there was also one dud egg in the nest. Long-tailed Jays – several in the area. Cedar Waxwings heard and seen everywhere. Oregon Chickadees Slender-billed Nuthatches Purple Finches singing Song Sparrows singing. 695 August 13, 1947, area west of Peoria Ferry, in Yellow Pine Belt 1-4 p.m. Clear-Hot Pied-billed Grebes – pair in lake NE of Winkle Butte Wood Ducks – a pair on the same lake Vultures circling everywhere over the countryside Sparrow Hawks here and there Flickers in the timber, and on the ground Slender-billed Nuthatch in the oak and pine Oregon Chickadees in the oak and pine 696 August 13, 1947, 12-mile Swamp, Clear and hot, 330 to 430 p.m. 2 American Egrets in the main swamp. 11 Mallards flushed in south end: (eclipse) Blue-winged Teal – flushed 4 young, of non-descript plumage, and then 100 feet away, I flushed the 3 adults in eclipse plumage. The wings are getting quite colorful, and one bird had the cheek patch beginning to develop so this verifies last week's. Wood Ducks – flushed 3 or 4, and saw one that was in the flightless stage. Vultures circling over the area. Cooper Hawk flew over Marsh Hawk female Sparrow Hawk Virginia Rail, 1 seen Killdeer Mourning Doves and young just out of nest, that couldn't fly very far. Horned Larks in field east of swamp. Don't seem as abundant now Violet-green Swallows Cliff Swallows Barn Swallows – the most common species this p.m. The next that contained two eggs the other day had a tragic end. The nest was empty, and I found one embryo (without the shell) lying on the board porch below the nest. It wasn't ready to be hatched. The parent birds were not seen around the nest. Robin-1 Cedar Waxwings flying here and there Pacific Yellowthroats in fencerows Purple Finches Green-backed Goldfinches – 4 of them. Song Sparrows No Redwings or Brewer's Blackbirds were at the swamp. 697