1944 Mar. 6. We started to Boulder Creek but weather became too threatening and we turned back at Palo Alto. Birds at the Alameda Pools were very abundant but many of them were too far away to be identified. Ducks were mainly Bluebills and Shovelers, a few Avocets nearby. Then birds of all sizes from Least Sandpipers up- At Dumbarton Bridge Ducks were also the same two species. Boot Eared Grebes, 5± Willets and all three Sandpipers in small groups, mixed. Perhaps 1 Redback, I W. Least Together. Many Sparrow Hawks, and Shrikes. Three Shrikes in trees along the Dumb. Bridge road east of the Bay Shore Hwy. Large flocks of Brewer Blackbirds. In Berkeley many Purple Finches singing near home. Also juncos. Mar. 8. Clear and warm as we went to Boulder Creek. Meadowlarks singing. Mar. 9. B. Creek. Beautiful, warm even at night. Many birds singing: W.W. Wren, Hutton Vireo, Juncos, Creeper, Black Phoebe, Kingfisher rattle heard several times. (No Lutescent Warblers anywhere.) Put out oatmeal soaked in fat. Brown Thrashers, 3 Sp. Thrushes, many juncos came. A Sp. Thrush was drinking while the male Br. Thrasher was feeding. Then the Brown T. alighted on the rim of the pool and stared at the Sp. T. who went on splashing for some time. When the Sp.T. flew the Brown T. attacked, and they flew up fighting, down fighting, under a bush fighting.