Bird notes, v4396
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103 Jan. 30. Vigor. When has been singing freely off and on all day. Begins jan. 28. Jan. 31. Spotted Towhee gave spring song across road west of steps. Rain Feb. 1. Rained all day. Feb. 2. Still raining. No frost. Juncos came to feed everyday - have for past two weeks. Feb. 3. Clear. Heavy frost across canyon in early 9.m Feb. 4. Clear with heavy frost in morning. Feb. 5. Feb. 6 Feb. 7. Feb. 8. Light frost in morning. Warm day. Drove to Ponder Creek and back. Birds abundant. Meadow larks singing. Feb. 10. Cloudy a.m. Rain p.m. Wanner. No frost. Faculty Section walked through lower Campus - Back of Women's Faculty Club we found Varied Thrushes, Purple Finch singing - Red-breasted Sapsucker. Walking toward west we found Bushtits, Titmouse (pr.), Nuthatch (pr.), In Faculty Glade - Song Sparrows (pr.) Warbler (Black- Throated Gray?) Varied Thrushes, Robins, Brown Towhees. Near Campanile White-collared Sparrow singing (mate near) Song Sparrows singing; Linnet, Anderson Warblers, Anna Hummingbird. In (Botanical) Gardens - Flicker (spring call wiiii-wiiii-wik, etc.), Calif. Jay, Purple Finch. In evergreens at west end, Coast Jays, Varied Thrushes. Robins, Along Woolsey Creek Spotted Towhees, Juncos, Varied Thrushes. In the decayed trunk of a large oak which had been cemented up a robin's nest, lined with mud. Clean and apparently just built - protected above - three feet to ground.