Field notes, v4394
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35 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.