Bird notes, v4397
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1939. June 3.(Contin) About 9 a.m. we started to Boulder Creek to spend a week. Cool with quite a strong breeze. Birds very abundant - Tanagers singing. Also Black-throated Gray Warbler. The Brown Towhee is still singing - still minus a mate ? June 4. Cool with strong breeze. June 5. Warm - beautiful weather. In Santa Cruz in the afternoon, along the West Cliff Drive we saw 9 Western Gulls, 15 White- winged Scoters, 1 Loon (Com.?), W. Gulls, F. Cormorants, Brandt Cormorants and a Pigeon Guillemot which entered a hole in the cliff where we have seen them each summer. Many Cliff Swallows building on the cliff. We could not find any Brown Pelicans or Neerman Gulls. June 6. Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Nactley Came from Berkeley and ate lunch on our porch. Warm beautiful day. All the birds singing. Cassin Vireo, Wood Pewee, Kite fisher, Tanager etc - About 4 p.m. we went down to Santa Cruz to see the Pigeon Guillemot. He swam just off the point but did not come to the bender. At Mrs. Wright's cottage a W. Flycatcher had a nest on top of a screen which was rolled up at the end of the porch. A (Hutton's Vireo) was singing