Accounts of birds, mammals, amphibians, and plant catalogue, v4551
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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