Bird notes, v4398
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1942 Apr. 1 (contin.) Aquatic Park 5:15 - 5:45 p.m. Boats swirling in the main pool - no ducks there. Saw three Forster Terns - one in breeding plumage, one in winter plumage, one with black on back of head but forehead white with streaks of black. The ducks had taken refuge in the K.R.E. pool: Blue- tails and Ruddies - several Ruddies in breeding plumage. Pipits in large flocks. A Western Winter Wren across Morewood Rd. from our house. April 3. Rain. Hermit Thrush comes to table for apple. Tennessee Warblers singing. April 4. Rain. Not many birds - singing: Purple Finch, Littercut Warbler, occasionally a Song Sparrow. April 5. Hermit Thrush came for apple. About 6:30 p.m. I noticed two Downy Woodpeckers just outside my window. They pecked into holes in the bark of the oak tree. Often backed down the trunk, At the same time - Eastern Oak Worms; Brown Towhee; Tennessee Warblers - no songs; all those I saw through my glasses were females. One Cedar Waxwing was very ragged - molting esp. about head and shoulders. Blackpoll Warbler, had seen; songs - Mrs. Washburn described a bird that has been in her garden most of the winter - a Tennessee Solitaire. Heavy rain most of the time.