Field notes, v4394
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32 1931 Mr. Albin Miller reported two Evening Grosbeaks on the Campus. Oct. 16. Took the advanced class to Cordovices Park, en- tering from Tausspains road in order to have the sun behind us. Birds were very thick, many of them evidently bathing in the tiny stream which at this point runs under a dense tangle of creek dogwood, blackberry vines and willows. A large- flock of bush tits lingered there nearly half an- hour, feeding and bathing. A fine view of the Hermit Thrush on a bare twig immediately below us and of a Fox Sparrow picking out the seeds from a head of wild parsley-Many (Gambel?) Sparrows were singing freely. Farther down where the water drops from a cement channel into a pool six feet below Townsend Warblers were bathing and an Anna Hummer hovered above the water dropping to the edge of the cement occasionally. Under a willow tree we stopped to watch two Ruby-crowned Kinglets which were apparently disputing over territorial boundaries. One raised its crown continually. Suddenly it seemed to hang upside down which astonished me for I have never seen one do that. We soon discovered it was caught in a bunch of cobweb and could not extricate itself. The branch was shaken vigorously which freed the bird but it spent the rest of the time (15 min?) picking off the cobwebs, one wing being found com- pletely wet.