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in Aug early & late.
9/3 7:30 A.M. about 1,000, FREE Swallows on
wires @ Alvarado & few Barn Cliffs. Coots
in slough off bridge. Shrikes all along road
in San Jose. 9/13 boy @ Alvarado says
they are there daily.
9/9 Shot a male Plain Tit, moultting
a young .. La. Tanagrr, craw full
wasps - heads, wings, legs, bodies but
no abdomans; probably rejected as
poison string. Made Skins lot lunch.
9/10 Shot female W. M. Prewer &
made skin next day. Saw a Brown-
Black plumaged, white-backed Marsh
hawk, slowly sailing over Waterside
lever ya Sparrowhawk 25 ft over
him all the white. Came soft of
me. Had no gun.
9/11 Fired 4 shots @ a Max. Horn
Lark, across canal & never killed
him. 1 shot @ marsh sparrow. Killed
a bald head & wall- aged jay in
orchard.
Vorn