Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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Banks 1960 2. lene. 5. Berkeley, Alameda C., Calif. (FAP home) Apr. 3 No molt of tail, apparently. This bird is essentially done with molt. Very fat, (extremely) &. Apr. 25 Salt Point, sea level, Sonoma C., Calif. This is an area of pasture on both sides of the road - ex- tending to the cliffs above the water on the W. side, a small grove of pines on the E. Heard a few birds singing at edge of pines, but when I got there couldn't find any. Also hear birds toward the water, where there is no brush or cover at all - just grass and rocks. Am not convinced that they are nesting here, but maybe. Song here is --- some- times with an upslurred J at the end. Osborne Ranch, 2.5 mi S, 3.7 mi E. Stewart Rd, sea level, Sonoma C., Calif. Bird 1 singing in top of small pine, - In area, several birds singing - ----- Bird 2, with this latter song, was with another after quite a chase - on a large fallen dead pine. W. 3 was flitting quietly in the lower branches of a pine. Was seen to catch an insect flycatcher fashion. I was attracted to 4 by its song (as above) - it led me down a row of small pines in grassy fields, to edge of bluff. W. 5 was in a pine with another bird - both had flown in from foraging in very short grass. As I got 5, no. 6 flew up in a pine 15 yds. away. # 7 is probably mate of 6. & Buns are a pair feeding in grass. Mate wounded, escaped into brush. 9 was in a pine tree, 10 flew in behind me after -