Field notes, v4392
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1926 May 10, - Very warm. Family of Titmice near house - Adult comes occasionally to table & feed. May 11. A Kingfisher gave its rattling call near the swimming pool. Many young birds calling - Spotted Towhees, Lutescent Warblers, Song Sparrows. Flocks of Bush-tits quite large - 10 ducks - Heard Olive-sided Flycatchers from institution. May 12. Duck did not take all the seeds. Titmouse feeding two young, came repeatedly for seeds which she hulled and fed to young as fast as she could prepare them. May 13 - Foggy a.m. Sunny later. 8 ducks came. Friday. May 14. Went to Los Banos by way of San Jose, Pacheco Pass - Took Mrs. Kibble and Mrs. Mexico in our car. Beautiful clear warm day. In a field near Milpitas we saw a flock of about 240 Curlews alight. We stopped and watched them for some minutes - Beyond Gilroy we saw a few yellow-billed Magpies - also one in the Pass - At the lake at the W. end of the pass there were many birds. During the hr. spent there we found a Loon, a W-Crevice, Coots, Baldpates, Forest's Tern; a flock of over 30 Bonaparte Gulls flew over toward the west; one Spotted Sandpiper on the shore, 1 Cormorant, 2 Anthony Green Herons and a Black Tern. Mrs. Kibble saw a Caty Oukoo - Cliff Swallows, Violet Green Swallows, Yellow Warblers. Brewer Blackbirds, Meadow Larks, Bullock's Orioles, Willow Goldfinches, Dunet Yellow Warbler and W-Yellowthroat were also abundant. Black Phoebes, Howd Larks in Pass.