1926 May 20. Beautiful day - Warm - All birds singing - House on edge of meadow bordered with Yellow Pines and Black Oaks - Also Blue Oaks, Dogwood, Maple, Firs, Cedars, and on tops of ridge Sugar Pines - Many springs and a brook running through the place . Transition Zone - Birds - Flicker, Catly Woodpeckers. Catly Jay, Steller Jay, Humming bird (sp. ?) - Meadowlarks, Druail , Wood Pewee, W. Kingbird. Black Chrobel ( nest on cottage ), W. Flycatcher, Greenbacked Gold- finch, Grosbeaks, W. Lark Sparrows (inme sp.counting), Brown Towhee, Spotted Towhee, Purple Finch , Linnet, Chispeeing Sparrows, Lazuli Buntings, Orioles, Mourning Doves, Cliffy Swallow, Barn Swallow, Warbling Vires , Cassins Vires , Yellow Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Pileolated Warbler, Robrins . Bluebirds, - Poor-Will heard at night - May 21. Door to Sacrament via Mokelumme Hill (detour to - Jackson, Dune, Yalt, Sacraments - Added: Killdeer, Buzzard, Horned Larks (very ab. below Dune), Black Tern - Returned via Yalt, Clements Valley Springo, Moko. Hill . May 22. Walked to 40 acre Ranch - N.W. - Added Merlinet, Snatchcatchers, Vugo's Wren, Hawk (Yorhank?) - A bird size of Tanager perched in bare branches of yellow pine and sang a wonderfully sweet song - 3 to 4 times as long as song of Purple Finch - (Tordund Solitaire ?)