20 1934 June 11. Mrs Leavens took me for a drive into the Oakland hills with Miss Hubbard, a professor of biology from Wellesly. We found a Hutton Vireo at each stop we made - four- Tolmie's Warblers as well as most of the common birds- At Mosswood Park, where we stopped a few moments on the way home an unusual call mystified me - sounded a little like the last four ringing notes of one type of song sparrow song but with a louder, coarser quality. A glimpse of the bird suggested the Spotted Towhee - Possibly its song has been influenced by some bird in the aviary. June 14. Sunday. Spent the morning in upper Strawberry Canyon with Miss Marjory Fry of Somerville College, Oxford. No unusual birds except (for this season) a Sharp-shinned Hawk which circled above the botanical gardens, with several very small birds flying about and annoying him. June 15. Drove in afternoon to Boulder Creek. Rain at nights. June 16. Rained hard until about 11 a.m. when we drove out of the rain into sunshine at Santa Cruz. Bought plants- Rosy morn petunias, white verbenas, statice, white yarrow which I planted in afternoon. Godetia just beginning to bloom. June 17. Charles Tanager heard several times - Watched Guillemots at Santa Cruz interviewed female gulls on W. Cliff Drive. Brown Pelicans; many Cormorants Banks (for flight birds) on Snellgully, Paradise Cormorants June 18. Drove home via Sausalito, Golden Gate. Flock of Guillemots (25+) at pool, Clickers at Sunol. June 22. Thrasher & Tolmie's Warblers singing early morning. Jaunts arrived. June 25 - 29 - Boulder Creek. Hot on 26th. Fewer birds singing- Thrush most prominent. No Tanagers. Ash-throated Flycatcher + Oliver-sided Reed frequently. Bluebirds near Joy Camp. Creepers on our place - Heard Purple Martin once # Alder Permit Thrush. befor dawn