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Early morning - Warbling Vireo singing. W. Flycatcher calling Willow Woodpecker.
March 30. Took walk with class near house - below in canyon and up to top of hill. Weather: overcast and chilly. Not many birds singing.
Found: Zual, Red-tailed Hawk, Flickers, Calif. Jay, Allen Hummer, Meadow Lark; Linnnet, Purple Finch, Intermediate Sparrow, Golden-cv. Sp., Song Sparrows, Brown + Spotted Towhees, Audubon Warbler, Townsend W. singing, Piedated Warbler, Iutescent Warbler, Ingors Vorn (nest), Titmouse, Bush-tit Robin, Thrasher, Hermit Thrush (singing), 23 species.
In afternoon drove to Boulder Creek with Prof. + Mrs. Wheeler of Princeton - Saw many Brewer and Red-winged Blackbirds on the way - Saw one Varied Thrush in Mt. Vernon. Flickers in orchards. Blossoms about gone.
Mar. 31. Went down to our lot then up to Boulder and Bear Creeks. Could find no water Buzzel. Saw or heard Turkey Buzzard, Calif & Coast Jay,
Allen H. (buzzing about madrone blossoms), Black Phoebe, Western Flycatcher
(heard many), Willow Woodpecker, Song Sparrow, Linnnet, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin, Green-backed Goldfinch, St. James, Spotted + Brown Towhee,
Warbling Vires (many), Halton Vires (one), Iutescent Warbler (many),
Piedated Warbler (few), Tannry Creeper, Chickadee (Card), Bush Tits, and
Western Blackbirds (pairs). No swifto or swallows. In afternoon
drove on to Carmel via Waterville, Moss Landing and Castroville. Not time
to stop except a few minutes at Moss Landing where we saw 2 St. Blue Heron,
Surf. Scoters in full plumage; 1 Sared Drake, 1 Pied-filled Drake and a few Cots
Saw also many Blackbirds (Br. + Red-H), a few Shrikes, a Sparrow Hawk,
several Willow Goldfinches, 3 Cliff Swallows, 1 Barn Swallow. Reached Carmel
at 6 p.m. Took a walk along beach before dinner. Nuttall Sparrows