Bird notes, v4398
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1941 James heard an Olive-sided Flycatcher on Panoramic Way- family of Bush-tits were in the olive trees. May 6. The "Happy Valley" group went to Saranap - first To the garden of Mrs. Shattuck on Walnut Creek. A Western Flycatcher and a Song Sparrow were evidently nesting. Violet-green Swallows were flying high above the creek. A pair of Warblers came into the trees near the creek and at Bullock's oriole was heard singing in the orchard - a small number of birds for such favorable territory. At Saranap Station, a large colony of California Wood- peckers were very conspicuous. At the east end of the row of Valley Oaks a bird was calling loudly - Krrr-kerr- krrr-kerr-khaw, * khaw, khaw - the last three (or four) notes) very open and loud. I caught one glimpse of it - as large as a robin (next to it), grayish above and white below. I believe it was a Yellow-billed Cuckoo - the second one I have seen in California. (The first was seen at San Felipe (?) Lake at the west end of Pacheco Pass.) (Other birds: Bullock's Oriole, Br. Blackbird, Robins (ab.), Linnets, Eng. Sparrows, Black-h. Grosbeak, Yellow Warbler and Hender-billed Nuthatch heard. At the Haberland Bee Ranch, House Wrens (nesting in box), Bicolored Warbler, family of Bush-tits, Mourning Doves, W. Flycatcher, Gr. Goldfinches, Linnets, Sparrow Hawk - calling and flying on a level with very rapid short flaps of the wings. Robins seen here also. No Lanyard Buntings seen or heard, but in the