Bird notes taken at Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California, v4495
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2 October 11-1894. Saws Great Blue Heron sitting on a fence. Payard Valley-upper end. March-27-1895. (Cattlin place.) Alfred Bilman and I observed a Red-tail poise in the air without the least effort apparently except after it had stayed still for at least two minutes its wings began to flap gently it would then move on and repeat the performance April-25-1895. Took a set of five eggs of some unknown Warbler. The nest was placed against the trunk of an oblique willow tree and supported by some shoots on the outside. The nest was in a rather open wooded place in the wooded river bottom. The nest was