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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.