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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