Bird notes, v4391
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April. 1922. Berkeley. Apr. 5. North wind. Warmer in afternoon. Apr. 6. Claremont Hotel & Canyon. Beautiful day. Found nothing unusual - Pipits, etc. Sparrow seen. Mrs. Edwin Mead reports that she had moved a humming bird's nest (disturbed by painters). Contained two young partly feathered and stretching their wings. She put the nest into a different bush and shelters it under a piece of corrugated paper. The mother continued feeding them. Apr. 7. Cold. Cloudy. Apr. 8. Clear. Chilly north wind. Apr. 9. Clear. Chilly. Apr. 11. Vigor's Norn investigated nesting box near runing (Did not occupy it.) Apr. 12. White-throats Sparrow moulting-very ragged about head and breast Brown Turkey 51980 - new tail feathers about 1/4 grown. April 13. Went to Golden Gate Park. Saw Bird-tailed Grouse Rared Grouse, Mallard Duck (8 young), Ruddy Duck Quail, Red-shafted Flicker, Allen's Hummingbird, Brewer Blackbird, Cal. Purple Finch, House Finch, Pink-sided Sparrow, Yellow-breasted Chat, Myrtle Warbler, Pac. Yellowthroat, Oleander Warbler, Vigor's Norn, Plain Titmouse, Bud-tit Ruby-crowned Kinglet: