1936 Mar 30 - Berkeley. The Pacific Warbler and Western Flycatcher are calling and singing near the house this morning (8a.m.) - not heard at dawn. The Fox Sparrow, Hermit Thrush, James and Red-winged-lets are still here. Bright morning - Jog on the bay - Began watering the garden. Wild Iris in bloom. House Wrens below our house. Mar 31. Beautiful day - cool breeze - no jog. A Veery Wren was seen coming out of the nesting box below the house - a male was singing nearby - Hermit Thrush, bright in garden. No H. Wren's heard. A Warbling Vireo heard across the canyon. W Flycatcher near and House Wren in woods below. Have heard no song from the Lateral Warbler which sang constantly from a tree just east of the house from Mar 19 - 26. Apr 2. Cloudy until about noon. Mrs Leaven took a group of ladies to the Sea; Pt. Cut-off where we saw the following birds: Red-billed and Eared Grebes - few (6-8), Bonaparte Gulls - abundant, and in all plumages: Western, Calif. and Glaucous-winged Gulls - on marsh, a few Pintsail, Reddy and Lesser Scaup Ducks, 1 Cinnamon Teal; several flocks of Canvas-backs off shore - a few pairs of Coots, 1 Avocet, 6-8 Yellow Legs, 1 Kildeer; Black-bellied Plover and Long-billed Dowitcher were thick along the mud flats. Many Red-backed Sandpipers, a few Western (or Least), Many Bitterns and Herons (Black-crowned and Blue) in marsh. Black-crowned Herons squatted low as if asleep, perfectly motionless till they suddenly snapped at something - the water. Several Marsh Hawks, Horned Larks, Meadow Larks, Red-winged and Brewer's Blackbirds, Pipits, Savannah Sparrows, Sennels Song Sparrow (salt marsh), Marin Song Sparrow (bay, Nuttall Sparrow, Dunnets, + Swallow (Treeback - not barn swallow), Barn Swallows (6-8), Susanna Marsh Wren (heard). Crow & Cat. Went hom