Bird notes, v4396
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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