Bird notes, v4398
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1941 May 13. Still raining (last night) or cloudy (all day) The Faculty Section had their last trip. We went to St. Mary's and the neighborhood, along the highway as the road past the lake was muddy. In about an hour and a half we found thirty-eight kinds of birds: the winter visitant (Townsend Warbler) Summer visitants: Western and Ash-Throated Flycatcher, House Wren, Warbling Vireo, Lark [illegible] Yellow Warbler, Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting (at?), Swallows (np?), (no orioles) Birds not generally seen in Berkeley: Bleeker billed Willet, California Nuttall Woodpecker. A Titmouse was giving a call > have never heard before - a rough chattery note before the explosive whistle commonly given. Only one Robin seen but several Juncoes heard singing. May 14. Clearing. The Lady Birds went to Arroyo Mucho. Cool and beautiful with green hills and abundance of water in the stream. We found a number of Bhanisopeas beyond the bridge at the bottom of the grade and found a completed nest containing two eggs. The eggs were very dark colored. The pair, came constantly to the nest but the female never settled to brood the eggs so far as we could see. The nest was near the middle of the lowest branches of an oak where a sparse growth of mistletoe was [illegible]. The nest rested on a cluster of