Bird notes, v4396
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Returned by lowest Titus trail. List of birds: Red-tailed Hawk, Allen and Rufous (?) Nuthatches, Calif.-Coast Jays, Flicker heard once, Meadowlark heard, Hutton Vireo, Audubon and Luteolent Warblers, Vigor Wren (26) Wrentit, Boreal Tit, Titmouse, R.C. Kinglet (singing everywhere) Thrush (head), Varied Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Juncos, Brown Spotted Towhees, Song Sparrow. Mrs. Ness saw the Lutescent Warbler pulling an alder Cattail to pieces (eating cattail or insect?) Vigors Wren carrying sticks into box near front door. Red-hot poker flowers gone. No hummingbird. Mar.12. Faculty Bird Section - Strawberry Canyon and 37 Norwood Rd. Heavy fog. Not cold. Sun later. Birds singing: Ruby-c. Kinglet, Titmouse, Vigor Wren, Lutescent Warbler, Thrasher, Song Sparrow, Spotted Towhee. Vigor Wren still building in box, carrying sticks. Jays nest complete? Blue Jay manages to alight on ground to later [illegible] Mar.16. Found Rufous-crowned Sparrows on Dwight Way hill. A pair in Artemisia and Baccharis, male singing. Female gathering nesting material. Female spent much time in grass where we could not see her; male in trees singing. Male follows her as she flies up into brush. Ranged from head of gulch to a point 150 ft ± below. Another male was heard singing 300 ft farther north. A pair of Sparrow Hawks were very active and noisy in the Suythe property. A Lutescent Warbler was singing in the Oaks near the stream to the north. Varied Thrush was bathing in pool at 5:30 p.m. A few quail have learned to stand on railing and poke their heads into Coconut shell as it whirls & tape Canary seed.