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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?)