Bird notes, v4397
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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,