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1944
June 3. Still cloudy. Anale at dam: Grosbeak, Thrush, Bewick
Wren, Lutescent W., Tolmie W., first to sing. At
11 a.m. a Robin was singing in the rain.
Total for yesterday and today 165 species.
June 3. Suddenly clear. Same damn chorus. Tolmie
Warbler under my window. At 9:45 a.m. I
heard the unusual note of the W. Flycatcher-
certainly very loud but undoubted flycatcher quality-
four times the volume of the Sweet-it call. Brown-
Towhee still feeding its one chick. Eight in oats.
June 4. "Clear, warm." 11 "" Tolmie W. singing
constantly. Pil. W. not heard nor juncos. Strange
calls of W. Fly four times at long intervals; up to
a moment only three - 3 p.m. Goldfinch, stopped.
June 5. Summer clear. Third day. So many birds
singing. Pil. W. and W. Vireo east of house. Lunt. W. (2)
in full song again. Both Anna & Allen females seen.
June 6. I-Day! A pair of Bushtits gathering good. All the
birds still singing. A Flicker called at the top of the steps
June 7. Clear, warm. Could hear House Wren singing
at 55 Canyon Rd. below us. (Has been nesting at
49 "" "" above the light in a garden
lantern. Spotted Towhee giving his peculiar song,
heard several times through the day. At
7:45 p.m. a young Hairy Woodpecker was
trailing an adult through the oaks below
house.
June 8. Songs decreasing. Thrush sang only a few phrases
last night. Bewick Wren still continuous. Heard House
Wren down the hill toward 55 Canyon Rd; A little l. wind.
Lois reported White cr. Bp., feeding three young on
the campus (Bancroft Way).