Bird notes, v4396
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72 1935 all made with entrance at the bottom - some com- fartment boxes. A house wren seemed to be using one of the larger ones, and these were told that bluebirds and finches were using some of them. We found a Warbling Vireo's nest in a buck-eye tree which overhangs the picnic table. It was at the end of low hanging branches, perhaps 7 ft. from the ground. We could see the female sitting and the male was singing nearby. After some minutes he took her place on the nest and sang at intervals during the fifteen minutes he remained on the nest. He apparently turned the eggs before settling himself and she did the same when she returned. A Brown Towhee's nest on the ground at the top of the bank above the creek, con- tained four well feathered young. We saw a Brewer Blackbird chasing a Sparrow Hawk and striking at it. We heard one Ash-throated Flycatcher. We were told the spring had been so cold the bees had made no honey (sq) and 58 colonies had starved. After lunch we went on to Alamo bridge where we found both day, Rustling and Oriole, Also Suttecent Warbler, P.B. Thrush and Pale-sided Warbler which we has not found at Saranap. No Lawrence Gold- finch at either place - no photos. Cliff Swallows ab. all along the way. 32 species seen. In Berkeley I heard no calls from the young tits in the box - The pair came for sunflower seeds, the female twittering and fluttering her wings. Copulation- May 14 Went to Boulder Creek to get some Sunline Arrived about 8 p.m. At Dumbarton Bridge still many hundreds of Phalaropes and some Dowdpeepers