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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)