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1932
May 1. Clearing-Warm. During a walk we heard and saw many birds including Wood Pewee, Ash-throated Flycatcher and Russet-backed Thrush (call notes only)
Berkeley
May 2-4. Cloudy with occasional showers. W. Flycatcher near Mrs.
May 5. Clear. Cool. Baby Vigor Wrens are quite noisy. Parents seldom call except when a Blue Jay appears in the oaks. The male never has made a practice of singing near the nest or even in the oaks east of the house. In the chorus at dawn I never hear him.
May 6. Golden Gate Park and Lake Merced. Sunny in Berkeley but a little fog and chilly all day in the park. Very few gulls on the bay - a few Bonapartes still near the pier (Berkeley). At Cliff House, two Wandering Tattlers, many Cormorants and a few Western Gulls - At North Lake, Mallards (female brooding in nest in tualypus about ten ft. from ground); female with brood of ten or twelve a few Coots.
Water very low, much of lake dry. Many quail, Allen Humming birds Brewer Blackbirds everywhere. Western Flycatcher, Hudson Vireo (heard), many Vigor Wrens, a few Robins, two Russet-backed Thrushes (whisper song); Sclolated Phoebe Dickcissel, Purple Finches, and Yellow Warblers, Bushtits and Chickadees, Linnets, Purple Finches, Song Sparrows, Nuttall Sparrows and Spotted Towhees, Princess(fat).
After lunch we drove over to Lake Merced where we found Yellow throats and Duke Wrens, Willow Goldfinches (one full plumage, one with yellow showing in spots among gray tipped feathers), Ruddy Ducks in full plumage and Mourning Dove(heard). Also Bill- +Yellow Warblers, Purple Finches, Linnets, Song Sparrows and Nuttall Sparrows.