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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