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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.