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Mayhew
1947
April 28
Western Robin
1.
2520 College Ave. Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
a pair of Robins were seen carrying food to
their young in a nest just in front of the
house. The nest is about 20' above the ground
on the west side of a hack-eye tree. It is
firmly lodged between three strong branches,
about 1/3 of the distance from the center of the
tree & its periphery. It seems to be composed
of string, and dried grasses of various types.
The nest is fairly well protected by foliage all
around and above it, but it is easily seen from
below.
May 6
6:15 P.M. the adults were seen arriving with
food at this time of the evening, even though
it appears to be sun-down (clouds are very heavy
in the west).
May 7
Both parents are feeding the young, but they are
never at the nest together. They both
approach the nest from the south, usually
landing on a branch of a sycamore tree
about 60' away before coming in to the nest. If
one bird is already at the nest, the other
waits in the sycamore until the coast is
clear, then flies directly to the nest.
U.C.campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
a nest, composed entirely of dried grasses, was
found about 30 feet above the ground on the north-
west side of a Persea lingue tree, near the circle
at Oxford Street. The nest contains 3 greenish-
blue eggs. One of the parents was on the nest
at 9:10 A.M., but neither was to be seen at