1939 April 15 (cont.) Brewer Blackbirds, Linnets. At Mt. View Marsh (at noon) - three hours after high tide but tide was only moderate. Mud mud exposed. Birds still decreasing. Birds seen: Clapper Rails 2; Bb. Plover, still the most abundant bird on the mud, but fewer than last week. Most of them in full plumage; Willets fewer than Bb. Plover; Sandpipers in flocks of 100±. All could see were Least; Dovetellers 10- very pruddy, Godwit 1, Long-tailed Curlew 7, Mud 5, Gulls 2, Lesser Yellowlegs 4 (possibly one was a Greater Y.) Foster Term 1, Barn Swallow 1, Pipits several; Bryant Sparrow 1, Yt. Blue Heron 2. While driving along > saw an Oriole, and heard Lutescent, Bicoloris and Audubon Warblers (the last singing) and Yellow Warbler, Grackles and Wrens. At Saratoga a Thrasher was on the lawn; a Rufous Hummer was drinking an Anna away from the yellow jasmine; a Downy woodpecker was calling. Linnets everywhere. James singing and W. Flycatcher calling. April 16. Boulder Creek - at dawn Purple Finch, Warbling and Cassin Vireos, Bicoloris and Black-throated Grey Warbler and W. Flycatcher. A Monterey Hermit Thrush was heard singing in the usual place on the wooded hillside across the river. On the way home