44 Feb.5 Raining - warmer. Birds show less fear of the hopper but most of them feed still at the opposite end of the table. A golden-crowned sparrow went directly to the hopper to feed - later a junco. Spotted Towhees fly toward the table , get panicky and fly away - Finally one alighted on the branch and came down on to the table for an instant. Feb.6 Birds are using the food hopper with less fear. Still raining . Mrs.Cole saw two Tornado Solitaires - one in non.plunge. Feb.7 Cloudy all day. Rain at night. No wind. Feb.8 Steady rain all day. East wind at night with heavy rain. Mr.Mead saw a flock of 30 white Pelicans flying over S.F.(Sac.St.at Montgomer Feb.9 Clear all day. Creep with frost across canyon in early a.m. Feb.10 Partly cloudy - Moths have been flying about light at night for weeks. Clear, crisp. Frost in shade at Lagunitas. Feb.11 Went to Tomales Bay, leaving at 8:15 a.m. Made a few stops along Lagunitas Creek where we saw juncoes, Western Writier worn, Rusty Song Sparrow and others. Drove out to Marshalls and beyond before seeing Black Brant. There they stayed close to the shore in shallow water. They payed no attention to the car and the lights were perfect so we saw all their colors and heard all their notes. They probably numbered between 800 and 1000. A boat frightened them away but they only flew across to the middle of the bay, then swung back to the same place. We could see them skiting a grasslike alim they pulled from just below the surface of the water. A gun shot in the distance frightenued a few of the birds that flew. The rest of the flocks did not rise. A gabling noise could be heard when they were quietly feeding. When new recruits came in or when alarmed this called crouk, crouk.