Bird notes, v4398
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1942 8:30 a.m. June 11. J.T.A. came up to the attic to tell me a song Sparrow was taking hemp from the door mat. I came down and she was still there, picking the shreds of hemp from the mat. Her bill was well filled but she continued for three or four minutes then hopped up on the east pier and among the potted plants. She disappeared before I could see just where she went. June 13. We stopped at Alvarado Pools - The California Lobelia covered acres. Water was reduced to narrow channels at quite a distance. Only a Killdeer came to protest when we stopped but near the channel I could identify satisfactorily two Arcotes in flight and I am quite sure I saw two birds with all black wings - Stilts. Blue Wallard flew over but I could not make out the other dark birds on the surface of the channel. (See next page - Diamond Park) June 14 and to noon June 15 - Boulder Creek. Warm, with high fog at night. A pair of Tanagers seemed to center activities in the large oak tree north east of the loggate - between the two gates. The male perches very high in a tall redwood when he sings. A second pair is north of Camp Joy. The Ash Throated Flycatcher was conspicuous several times and on the morning of June 15 the pair came - one over the wire above the box on the rose trellis, the other in Baccharis near by. Families seen: Cassin Vireo, Black Phoebe, Creepers, Chickadees. Hutton Vireo heard again - as well as Cassin & Warbler Flycatchers. Black, Phoebe, Olive sided, Ash Thrush, Western, Wood Pewee.