I was awake at dawn and the first bird A call was a W. Kingbird which kept repeating a soft fee-dee-dee, fee-dee-dee. It was some time before the Tree Swallows began and then the Bronsbroke, Linnets until there was a general medley of sounds in all directions. We were out birding 5:30 - 7:30 a.m. After breakfast we started homeward, turning off at Lower Lane to Seiglers Springs and Cobb Mt. At a junction near Adams Springs we found Juncos and Olive-sided Flycatchers (a pair) and heard a Tanager in addition to those already seen. North of Middletown where we bundled a pair of chats, one Audubon Warbler, and the Black-throated Gray Warbler (seen-many had been heard before) brought the list to 70 species. Nests of Cliff Swallows on the steel beams under the bridge over Cache Creek were in rows touching each other. Males were busy feeding females in the nests. May 12. Boulder Creek. A Water Quail gave its rattle just below the cottage about 8 a.m. At noon I heard it again and went down to the edge of the river. I could hear the song, repeated over and over. It came from the opposite shore where a small stream flows into the river. I could not see the bird. Tanagers heard. Olive-sided Flycatcher calling. Bl.thr. Gray W. still singing.