Bird notes, v4396
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138 1937 Jan. 10. Warmer. Ice thawed. Raining. Jan. 11. Raining all day. Snowed on range - Baldy. Jan. 12. Clean, warmer. Walked to the top of the hill. The first time since last spring - (because of a bad knee). Thrasher and Song Sparrow singing. Jan. 13. Raining again. Warm. Thrasher & Song Sp. singing. Jan. 15 Drove to Boulder Creek and back. Showers and warm. generally cloudy. At Oumbarton Bridge there were mostly Pelicans, Egrets or Herons. About 300 heard. One Ruddy Duck, Grebies, a few Sandpipers (W.-F Res backed), one Willett and four yellowlegs that were acting like Phalaropes. They appeared to be swimming, dived frequently and picked insects off the surface of the water. When they flew they showed Yellowleg and gave the call of the Greater Yellowlegs. In the bay a few Green-eyes. At Mt. View Marsh the tide was high. There were a hundred or more ducks (mostly pintails), Twenty or more Willets and a few Coots, - one of them a Long-billed. It was impossible to tell how many there really were because the tide was too high. At Boulder Creek - in the lower - noticed robins and an Audubon Warbler (warm weather) and near the Cottage a Ruddy Knight, 1 Butler Vireo, Creeper, Bick-tits, and as we drove out large flocks of juncos - Jan. 16 N.W. wind. Clear. In the afternoon we drove up Grizzly Peak Blvd., parked the car and walked up to the top of Baldy. We could see the Sierra's covered with snow. The only birds I saw were Golden-crowned Sparrows feeding under a eucalyptus tree. The branches had been broken off by the wind (Jan. 11)