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1936.
April 7. Warm, clear. Worked in garden. Great
flocks of juncos, crowned sparrows, siskins,
Andebon and Townsend warblers, Robins,
Purple Finches in oak trees near house. Birds
nesting (?) near: Calif. Jay, W. Flycatcher, Lutiscant
Warbler, Titmouse (in box), Vigio Wren, Song Sparrow,
Brown Thrasher, Spotted Towhee.
April 8. Warm, clear. Lutiscant Warbler failed to sing at
dawn. Later when working in the garden I
heard both birds chipping and watched one go
with food in its beak to a spot among the
ferns I planted on the wall above the dining
room terrace. As we were just leaving for
Boulder Creek I did not investigate the nest.
April 9. I went with Mr. and Mrs. McCabe to
Corall Hollow, S.E. of Livermore, South of
Altamont Pass. It was a warm beautiful
day. Fields of poppies from Livermore bout
the hill top covered with yellow violets. Many
other flowers. In one valley there was a deep
cracked ravine cut 10-12 ft - soil to bottom,
no rocks. No rock visible in whole valley.
But there were many pairs of Rock Wrens. Saw
one pair enter a hole in the bank. Males
in full song. Say Phoebe present. There also
During lunch which we ate under an oak tree
on the grade down to Corall Hollow we saw
Linnets (building platform for nest in low branch of the oak
House. Wrens (nest in hole in dead trunk . . . .
Brush Tits (nest almost complete in same oak)
W. Flycatchers, Juncos, Brown Thrashers, Nuttall Wood-
picker, and Warbler, R.C. Kinglet, G.C. Sparrow, Gambel