Bird notes, v4396
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1934. 13 Mrs. Thompson told me that at an evening lecture given by Prof. Whitman in Room 11 Wheeler Hall, a hummingbird (male Anna) flew about the room for an hour without alighting. April 6. Bird Lore trip to Lake Merced. Fog on bay a.m., fog all day at Lake Merced. Not in Berkeley - no breeze. On bay: Loon (Pac.?), Common Loon, Western Grebe (ab.), Cormorant (Far.?), Surf and White- winged Scoter, Glaucous-winged Gull, Bonaparte's Gull (ab.), Sandpipers (sp.? 1 flock). At Cliff House: Surf Birds (2), Glaucous-wg. & Western Gulls. At Lake Merced: Pied-billed Grebe - 2 spent most of lunch hour asleep in edge of lake in shallows water midst of tules. Herons, Cormorant, At Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Herons (8+), Bittern (seen twice), Mallard Ducks (males ab., only two females seen, Brooding?), Puddy Duck - one male, White on cheeks and under tail very conspicuous. Virginia Rail. Came into pool where grebes slept. Coot. Glaucous-wg. Calif. (or Ring-billed) and Western Gulls. Anna Hummingbird - one female acting as if near nest. Allen's Hummingbirds - hundreds - Kingfisher - disappeared into fog - heard call. Flicker - heard. W Flycatcher, Swallow (sp.), Chestnut-backed Chickadee (ab.), Bush-Tit, Virginia Wren, Cute Wren - very ab. - singing, carrying tules 15" in long