Bird notes, v4396
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120 1936 time. He flew from one branch to another and picked off a worm in passing, just as he did last year. Heard the muffled call of the Sharp Shinned Hawk. Thrasher singing. May 2. The Juvenile Warbler sings occasionally. Have heard juncos below the house to the west for several days - nesting there? May 3. A Western Tanager across the road. May 4. An Oriole called and sang across the road. May 7. Bush. We seem with young. Juvenile Warbler singing freely. Robin Warbler occasionally - Vegors when sings most of the time - female still brooding in Fischer box. When I was watering below the bird feeding station, a Song Sparrow came into the branch twice as if to tell me he wanted food. My head was perhaps three feet below the branch. I have not been putting out food regularly lately. May 9. Dumbarton Bridge - Low tide 10:30 a.m. Many Phalaropes and Western Sandpipers (no Redbacks seen), a few Bonaparte Gulls in full plumage, bird Curlew (west end) (no grebes or plover seen). At Sunnyvale Marsh, two Hudsonian Curlews and Binnington Curlew (8:40 in S.T.) May 10. Height of the Season at Boulder Creek. All summer birds in. On the grade I heard a W. Tanager. Near the cottage: a pair of quail, 1 Turkey Vulture soaring low, 1 Sh. Sh. Hawk flew over in northwesterly direction Wood Peewee, W. Flycatcher, Harris, Calif. Tommy Woodpeckers, (no jays), 1 Allen Hummer (5), 1 Kingfisher, Chickadees, (nourse Cassia, Hutton and Warbling Vireos; Juvenile, Black-Thr.