1942 Sept.7. Labor Day. Returned to Berkeley in morning. Strick fog at Hayward but the afternoon was sunny. Sept.8. Heavy rain in the morning. Cloudy all day. Heard a Yellow Warbler in elms on Ellsworth St. Sept.9. Cloudy. A Russet-backed Thrush called repeatedly. Wrentits, Song Sparrows, Titmouses, Vireos were singing. Titmouses calling. Sept.11-15. Boulder Creek. Clear. Warm mornings, hot afternoons. Birds very silent. Brown Towhee - lame male - very ragged - molting. Water Ouzel heard several times. Four Spotted Towhees at feeding table together - more in spotted breast, giv-plumage. Large flocks of quail, 25+. some not quite grown. Flicker and Cali. Woodpecker heard. Russet B. Thrush heard Sept.15. A single Chichadee seen several times at pool (at Campbell on red-auge, pl. maple) Sept.17. Berkeley. A Nairy Woodpecker near house. Hummingbirds numerous - many seen between our house and 72 Panorania. Foggy all day. Sept.18. Heard a western Winter Wren call. Chilly at night. Sept.19,20. Heard the W.W. Wren again. Also Hutton Vires calls. Mrs. Gladding reports Three Crickets near her house (Miller Ave.) Cool fog early morning. Chilly evening. Sept.21-25. Boulder Creek. Heard a W.W. Wren Flicker, Pygmy Nuthatches frequently just below the Collage-O Water Ouzel, Flickers increasing. Kingfisher, Hutton Vires Black Phoebe, juncos, 2 Towhees, Cali Jay again like the Sulphur. Sept.24. Santa Cruz. W.P. Heer- marine Gulls, Brown Pelicans (8), Saunders (401) (over)