we saw a number of Espanor Harls. At the Bee Ranch we could not find the Townsend Solitaire (see Feb. 8) but we saw Nutall Woodpeckers, Slender-billed Nuthatch and the Flicker - also a Shrike. The Tree Swallows were not at the Lake nor the Say Phoebe. Other birds seen: Caly Jay, Brewer Blackbirds, Robins, White-crowned Sparrows. Feb. 23. The Lady Birds went to the Alvarado Ponds, where there were 50 Green-winged Teal on the open water and many more among the marsh grasses. Other birds seen: there were Shovelers, mallards, Pintails, Ruddies, Bluebills a few; a Yellowlegs (Greater). From there we went to Niles Nursery where we saw several Mocningbirds. One cpair seemed to be nest building: the female disappeared in some large shrubs; the male waited near by until she came out then followed her as she flew away. After lunch we saw them again in the same place. We went on to the Leslie Salt Works where we saw a dozen or more Avocets, an Am. Egret, a Black-crowned Night Heron, Red backed Sandpipers, Western Sdy. and Dowitchers, one Long-billed Curlew, many Shovelers, a few Ruddies and Bluebills and Pintails and one pair of Canvasbacks, an Am. Golden Eye. In a distant pond there were