Bird notes taken at Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California, v4495
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a Hawk and used its wings in a perceptible manner, more often than the Turkey Vul- ture does! It did not appear frightened at seeing me al- though it kept a more res- pectful distance. A Macgillivray's Warbler and nest were seen tonight, the latter with its four eggs' taken. I think there can be no doubt about the identity as I looked carefully at the bird for five minutes. Its chirp was like that of the Western Yellow-throat and at first I thought I had a nest of that species for it looked exactly like the ones that species builds but the eggs are not so long and are spot- ted and marked in about the same manner except that the markings are reddish-brown instead of black. The ground color is more of a creamy-pink