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May 14,1932. Cent leaving 50% of crop picked and ruined. Maybe more. Bings being attacked as fast as ripened. See no possibility of escaping very heavy loss. [[underlined]] Crows [[/underlined]] also working on grove but [[underlined]] [[locust?]] [[/underlined]] damage major. After dinner inspected apricot orchard where poisoning was carried on this spring. The trees under attack at that time showed only a fraction of green fruit present in undamaged portion of orchard. Damaged buds still clinging in some cases. SWJ modesto. Near Patterson S.W. saw live colonies of [[underlined]] Tricolors [[/underlined]] along a ditch. One contained many empty nests with the air full of newly fledged young, One tule full of those unable to fly & one section of ditch perhaps 50 yards long where nests contained 1-3 newly fledged young. Apparently 2nd nesting for these pairs. Few pair of Cal. redwings present. Perhaps 5000 birds present, young & old. [[underlined]] Second colony 1 1/2 miles [[/underlined]] away in a tule swamp. Young mostly fledged [[underlined]] 20,000-25000 birds. [[/underlined]] judging from those in air and the fact that trees were jammed with birds unable to fly. Thence south - traveling west, Modesto via country road east of highway hardly 20 miles between 500 PM & 600 PM and counted [[underlined]] 47 doves from [[/underlined]] car in singles & pairs. All in area heavily treated with thallium for several years. Also 2 quail flushed by us. Then atu[[strikethrough]] traveled south and west in car 10 miles and counted [[underlined]] 50 [[/underlined]] doves in hour between 6-700 PM. better time of day of course but birds all singles or pairs