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1938
Pair of Wrentits singing near house -
Dec. 3. Rain and heavy fog - Great Horned Owls calling at night
Dec. 4 Clear - Wrentits Singing
Dec. 6. Heavy lake fog - "
Dec. 7. Saw several Varied Thrushes in the pines above
Mosswood Rd. Lois saw two Great Horned Owls
on the electric poles on Mosswood Road.
Dec. 8. A W. Gnatcatcher was calling east of the
house. As they usually come into the small
Black Oaks just over our line I watched
these trees and sure enough the Gnatcatcher
came into one, stayed a moment then
flew out toward the west. Warm.
Dec. 10, 11. Boulder Creek - Birds very abundant:
Dwail, Kingfisher, Black Phoebe, Chickadees,
B.c. aus G.c. Kinglets & Nuttall Vires, Robins,
Varied Thrushes, Hermit Thrushes, Cedar
Waxwings, Juncos, Fox Sparrows. Spotted
Towhee, Brown Towhee. Madrone Berries
abundant. Very cold at night (28°?).
Clear.
Dec. 11. At Mountain View Marsh at 3:30 pm.
Tide very high. Saw 2 Clapper Rails outside
fence. 2 Spondyls in distance.
Many Gulls. (Only Two more on fence above water)
At Dumbarton Bridge - in westerly
Salt pool Eared Grebes (300+), Bonaparte's Gulls (100+): Both feeding on sur-
face of water and one flock a massed
group of both species together. In the
next pool there were thousands of
Shore birds - Sandpipers, R.L. Plover,