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Mayhew
1947
Western Robin
2.
May 7
U.C. campus, Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
2:10 P.M. when I looked again. The weather
is fairly warm, so apparently it is all right to
leave the eggs alone for a while.
May 8
It appears that incubation has begun because
one of the parents was seen on the nest
every time I looked at it today. I looked
at the nest at 9:05 A.M., 11:55 A.M., 2:10 P.M. +
6:10 P.M., and the bird had apparently not
changed position all this time.
2520 College Ave, Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
at 3:00 P.M. I began watching the parent birds
bringing food to the young in the nest in the
hack-eye tree. The food this afternoon has
consisted of worms of unidentified species
and some corolla petals of the hack-eye tree.
The young are almost completely covered with
down now, and are able to stand up and
flap their wings a little. They can be seen
exercising and primping their small feathers
between trips by the parents.
at 3:55 P.M. one of the parents left after bringing
some food. As yet, there has been no sign of the
other bird arriving.
at 4:13 P.M. one of the parents landed in a tree
about 120' south of the nest. On four stages
it arrived at the nest a minute and a half
later. It landed in the tree about 30 feet
from the nest before it actually went to
the nest, at this point, the young stood
up and uttered a series of rolling notes.
The parent had the young seed pod of some.