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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