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Nov. 3. Mr. and Mrs. McCabe took me up to the Botanical
Gardens & try to find the Field Sparrow hoping to
collect it. No success - Beautiful, warm day.
Mr. B began trimming out dead branches in
oak trees.
Nov. 4. Heard Varied Thrush & W. Winter Wren in early morning.
Later a House Wren came into the garden - first in
honeysuckle at the entrance, then to new pool. Gave
all its calls. No stripe over eye. Fog in morning.
Nov. 5. Spent spare time yesterday and today burning
fresh trimmings from trees. Eggs of oak moths on under
side of many of the leaves. Moths still about in great
numbers - Two generations of worms have eaten the oak
leaves already this summer and if this warm weather
continues perhaps a third generation will mature.
Mrs. Schwartz tells me that oaks in this neighborhood were
sprayed. [illegible] are now leafless. On Oct. 30 and Nov. 2,
observed Zonotrichias, Spotted Towhees, Titmouse and Slinde.
killed Nuttatch as well as a Warbler (Orange-crowned?)
feeding on moths, cocoons or worms - I have never
seen Sparrows feeding in the trees
[illegible] before in the fall. They do always in the spring.
Nov. 6. Very few birds near Sphuce St. Reservoirs in Wildcat Canyon.
Nov. 10. Rain. W. Winter Wren heard frequently from the house.
Heard several Varied Thrushes farther up the Canyon yesterday.
Moths are much less conspicuous. Hermit Thrushes and Ruby-cr.
Knights very abundant.
Nov. 11. Clouds suddenly. Ivan and Kate went to Boulder
where thermometer dropped to 30° w. heavy white frost.
Nov. 12. Clear, cold.