Bird notes, v4397
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1940 Wb. Goldfinches. No Paleated Warblers yet. House Wren singing near 29 Moswood Rd. Mar. 20. Warm spring day. Heard a Western Flycatcher East of the house. Luscaet Warbler came to bathe in east pool in afternoon. Hermit Thrush and Junco in a flock. House Wren singing in same territory as yesterday. Mar. 21. In the pool near Alvarado there were 36 Yellowlegs. They seemed to me to be Greater Yellowlegs. Have never seen so many together before. There were a few Dovitches and Red-Backed Sandpipers. At Santa Cruz on the West Cliff Drive I found no swallows or Gullmints yet. On the ocean there was a raft of more than 150 Brown Pelicans. They were seen first flying in close formation, then alighted with great splashing of water. Near them were many Cormorants. On the rocky shores there were many Sandpipers and Black Turnstones. Other birds seen were W. and Sand Grebes, White-winged and Gull-billed Terns, Gulls. One diving bird with large white wing patches seen at a distance may have been a Gullmint. W.W. Wren singing near Tall House - Big Trees. Mar. 22. Boulder Creek. Beautiful warm day. We explored the river banks where great quantities of sand have been deposited and much drift wood. One large tree was two ft. in diameter (redwood) - in three pieces