Bird notes, v4396
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8 March 17. Drove to Boulder Creek via [illegible] Sandoga. War Bonne tries in full bloom. Saw Violet-green Swall Lors (15-28) at Mission Bridge. March 18. Boulder Creek. Brilliant sunrise until 9:30 a.m. thin high fog for an hour, thin clear. Lutescent Warbler heard. Also the usual chickadees, creepers, Santa Clara Valley overcast and chilly fog in Oakland and Berkeley as we came home (5 p.m.) March 19. Partly cloudy. Cooler. A Hermit Thrush sang repeatedly at 6:30 a.m. in full voice, but incomplete song. Lutescent Warbler song heard from house. Ruby-c. Kinglets, Fox Sparrows. Purple Finch, Virginia Wren, Songbirds singing. March 21. Heard and saw Warbling Vireo at Mrs. Meads, Lady Birds (decided to adopt name of Cinnamomum) went to The Pintail Gun Club near Center Valle, owned by Mr. Tobin and Mr. Tucker. Many foreign and rare American ducks and geese in separate cages. Two large cages contained ponds, one for diving ducks, one for river-pond ducks. Outside on open ponds were geese and swans that had been poisoned. Beyond all these in ponds near the bay shore were wild birds where many pintails, coots, galls and 200-400 Long-billed Dowitchers were feeding. The native ducks seen were: Mallard, Gadwall, Piker Baldpate, Green-winged, Cinnamon and Blue-winged Teal Shoveller, Wood Ducks (3 or 4 pns.) Redhead, Canvas-back Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Am. Goldeneye (2 female), Bufflehead, Ruddy, Fulvous-Tree Duck, Snow Goose, Greater Snow Goose, Ross Goose, White-fronted Goose, Canada, Hutchins and Cackling Goose, Whistling Swan Also Blue Goose, White-cheeked Goose, Emperor Goose