1941 Nov. 7. Happy Valley. Clear, warm. Light north wind. We walked back into the hills and into a wooded canyon. Birds were less abundant than last week - esp. Goldfinches and Common Sparrows. Flickers were just as plentiful - once four flew out of one tree. We heard calls of titmouses in several places - at least eight - one was giving the dive-set call. Linn's woodpeckers were seen again, flying rather high 4-6; a Shrike perched in an oak above the place where we found the impaled cricket last week gave a variety of calls - A Berkeley Jim Sparrow calling: Redtail was perched on a fence post. Juncos were more ab., P.C. Knights less as than last week. A Thrasher was calling up on the hillside but was not seen. The wind interfered with observations. Nov. 8. We left Berkeley in a dense light fog which continued through Walnut Creek to Sunol and on through the Santa Clara Valley and up some distance in the Santa Cruz mts. About Sunol on Football Drive we made one stop. We found there the largest aggregation of finches I have ever seen. They were perched on the wires on both sides of the road, on a branching line of wires, in a small Black walnut tree and in the weeds. All of them were chattering and there was a constant volume of their sounds. Great flocks would rise and disappear in the fog then reappear and light. The only ones we could see distinctly were the