Bird notes, v4397
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pulled it in a little at a time. Head gray. Red brown on sides, tail, cheeks, breast spots. Warm. Feb.8,9. Clean. Air cool. A Thrasher sings in the distance - toward upper Panoramic. The dead cypress which has been used as a perch for several years has been taken out. (Above Woodwood Rd). The Thrasher is the only bird that sings at dawn now. On Feb. 8, I heard a Green tailed Goldfinch singing just east of the house. Feb.10. We drove to Boulder Creek via Dumbarton Bridge. Birds Seen There: Spoonbills 100t; Eared Grebes 400t, all birds seen, Willets, 20t; Red-backed Sandpipers abr. 200t; 1 Am. Egret. Feb.11. Boulder Creek. Cool. Clear sunshine. Flocks of Chickadees, Juncos. Gr. Gold- finches, Siskins, 2 Sp. Towhee. Frost, early a.m. At Dumbarton Bridge: Spoonbills, Red-backed Sandpipers abr. A few Western and possibly Least. Tide was high and on one dyke Willets were crowded 300t. Grew cool very south. No gretles seen. At Mt. View Tide was coming in, almost at high. 1 Egret. 83 b. Clover 100t, Willets, Spoonbills ab. When the birds were dis- turbed a group of about 30 Curlew were - mort of them Long-billed. Some [illegible]