Bird notes, v4397
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1939 Woodpecker, a small group of Celi Woodpeckers, a Black Phoebe and a Western Flycatcher. Catyps, A Titmouse, several Turkey Buzzards, Bush-tits, Lemmits, Buget Sd. Sparrows. Along the highway there were Horned Larks, and several Sparrow Harker Buzzard juncos in San Rafael. At a shop near the San Rafael Ferry there were Bb. Clover (3), Willets (12+), Yoderits (6-8), and Gulls. Only gulls on the bay except on the rocks near the Preliminary landing where there were Cormorants, prinatals and possibly some shore birds. We came into Berkeley by the Bay Shore and stopped at the marshy pool at Ashley Ave where we watched N. Phalaropes. On the bird island farther north there were three Brown Pelicans, 1 Am. Egret, and several Bonaparte Gulls. One Far. Cormorant was fishing Total: 43 species. Sept. 27. Sunny, pleasant. Many evidences of migrating birds. Heard a Red-breasted Nutatch; a group of tanagers; noticed first the soft whistled notes, later the "pret-ty" call. Warblers came to bathe (busy at the Telephone). At sunset a sharp note like that of Fox Sparrow when he goes to roost. Boregen Creek Oct. 1. Rained last night. A Water Lenzel sang for some time below the cottage. Warblers about; not sounded like Townsend - Many Buget-Sd. Sparrows on way to Berkeley, esp. San Leandro N.