Bird notes, v4398
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1942 June 1. Mrs. Hackley reported the baby Anna Hummer flew on May 30. Seen today being fed by the mother. Whirrs its wings on a perch, flies a short distance. A second. Anna Hummer nest in quercus at back door contains two eggs. Families of titmice & juncos still about. A robin sang after today. June 2. Vigor Wrens have flown from the titmouse box below the house (nest begun Apr. 15-) June 7. Bush Tits are again going in and out of the nest in the Willbur's pine tree. Walked up to Mann House on Panoramic. A Lazuli Bunting was singing above the window backs. Other birds as before. Vigor Wren has been singing freely recently near their box below the house. So I opened the top to see if they had started another brood. No eggs. (At 7:40 p.m. a baby bush tit was away dead Beautiful weather leaves under curb across from our house. Many Cassia flying to it.) June 8. Sat down on the wall at the end of Mosanwood Rd. and watched and listened for fifteen minutes 10:05 - 2:0 a.m.. A Mourning Dove flew in from the east, circled 3 & Mosanwood and flew back up the canyon. A Wood Pewee was perched on the dead cypress above our house to east. Bush Tits were in our garden; no sign of the baby seen last night. A family of Titmice. Several Wren tits singing. Vigor Wrens singing. Thrasher had been singing all the morning - one heard during 15 min. Busset b. Thrush, singing softly. Hutton's Vireo singing in distance to east. Paleolated - two singing and flying often from below to older tree or across the road. Dusky Thrush singing. Calif. Purple Finch - family in pine. House Fly flyin' over; Mt. Gold & Blue Jays flyin' over. Spot T. sp. Br. Tree, Song Sp. singing. Night. 49. Screech Owl could be heard.