Field notes, v4392
Page 29
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
1926 Apr. 12. Quail came late. Robin singing at dawn. Several Audubon Warblers eating oakworms in our trees, 2 Intermediate Sparrows came for water. Apr. 13. Quail about at dawn, calling and giving guard whistle. Left before we fed them at 8 and did not return this day. All birds feeding in trees, come seldom to table. Golden-crowned Sparrows in full plumage. Tolmie Warbler singing at end of Mosswood Rd. Apr. 14. A pair of quail came several times - no flock. Apr. 15. Finished Bird Log report and mailed it. Jamie still sick. Apr. 16. Went with ladies to Marin Q. Crossed on Richmond Ferry at 9 a.m. On rocks off shore were many Cormorants, Gulls, a Brown Pelican and a number of Sea Lions swimming themselves - drove this' San Quentin and stopped at marsh beyond where we walked out on a board walk. Saw many Salt- Samuels Marsh Song Sparrows, a Black-crowned Night Heron and two Great Blue Herons. Heard also Lucent Warblers, Mourits, Dunces, on the oak & madrone covered hill nearby - drove on to a little valley where there was a farm house at the ! end of a road bordered by Eucalyptus shrubs. Three tall eucalyptus trees at the right contained nests of the St. Blue Heron - one bird could be plainly seen standing by its nest. Many Calij. Woodpeckers in these same trees. females collecting building material. Bicolored Redwings in the field, dunlits in full plumage; Goldfinches gathering bits of bark from Eucalyptus and grasses from farm rake. Brewer Blackbirds new barn, also an Oriole - 1 Anna Hummer -