Bird notes, v4396
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1936 110 March 28. Cloudy. Oaks filled with birds: 2 Lutescent Warblers singing, Spotted Towhees, Brown Tanagers, several Song Sparrows, Virginia Warbler, Western Flycatcher and Titmouse (three all located for nesting). Also Fox Sparrow (heard at sunlight dawn), Bald-crowned Sparrow, Gambel Sparrow, Purple Finch, Bristle-thrush, Junco, Audubon Warbler, Townsend Warbler, Hermit Thrushes, Robins, 2 Red-breasted Nuthatches (one flew to the window to catch off an insect) Varied Thrushes — between 10:30 a.m. to noon there must have been more than a thousand birds in the garden. Most of them came to the pool west of its house. A dozen Robin would go in together. If they had to wait for robins to leave they would alight in the current brush or drop to the ground to feed. Junco drove them away two or three times. At noon we ate lunch, in front of the window over the pool and not a bird was seen. Rain at night March 29. Cloudy with Showers. Saw no great number of birds in the oaks but Purple Finches and Robins were busy all day. March 30. Raining steadily. A wandering Vireo began singing near the house at 9 a.m. Hermit Thrush singing at 7 a.m. At 18:30 a.m. a flock of siskins came in and I watched them pulling out the worms from the oak leaves. At the same time I saw a Klugit, a Townsend Warbler and a Red-breasted Nuthatch and heard junco and Gambel Sparrow (or pygmy?)