April, 1936 San Andreas, Calaveras Co., Calif. April 24, cooked be [illegible] this year. Doesn't believe "shoots" on number cut down of jays - seems to be as many to kill next year. [However, as many as 1200 or 1500 have been killed before! Note bog this year!] The most benefit comes from the pleasure derived from hunting and from the mixer at the barbeque. Other birds are often mistaken for jays: yellowhammers [= red shafted flicker] sometimes flies like a jay; bush robin [= brown towhee?] have profile in tree like a jay; woodpeckers (reddish-black on belly; black back) [= Lewis woodpecker. Chicken hawks (the small low-flying hawks) are of more harm to quail and other birds than are the big circling hawks. All count in this contest, though. Wiley's "contributions" continue: Has seen [past completed action of verb or progressive action?] quail nests destroyed by jays. A friend of his also saw a jay fly from chicken roost with a hen's egg on its bill. These hawk shoots might go too far, though, he said. This predator -> prey business is complicated. Maybe if the jays are destroyed other worse "things" will take their place. End of Wiley for the moment.