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[[underlined]] May 21, 1932.[[/underlined]]
Saw from the car on a seven mile drive thru
this area as follows
[[underlined]] Meadowlarks [[/underlined]] 3
[[underlined]] Horned Larks [[/underlined]] 7
[[underlined]] Mourning Dove [[/underlined]] 12
[[underlined]] Cal. Quail 16 [[/underlined]] adult birds - 3 broods of young each containing more than 12 birds.
Walked along a little creek in Carmel Valley. Birds abundant - [[underlined]] Bush-tits Wren tits, Brown Towees  Titmice - House Wrens, Warblers [[/underlined]] particularly [[underlined]] golden pilealated - Goldfinches - Fly catchers [[/underlined]] etc made woods ring with song. Also saw
my first [[underlined]] Anna Hummer [[/underlined]]. Saw [[underlined]] Road runner [[/underlined]] carrying three small lizards in her jaws. Returned to Salinas got baggage
& went to Watsonville.
Enroute in Elkhorn Slough about
3 miles east of Castroville we located a colony of [[underlined]] tricolor redwing [[/underlined]] containing several thousand pair. It was most populouscolony I've seen, except the thistle patch
one and of course the famous Marysville one.
Jacobsen also took me to another he had previously seen but a dredge had worked thru the ditch & the colony was gone.
At Watsonville we went to Petersons ranch & saw  a most careless job of poison. It was done by rancher who had placed
great piles of poison inside a fence. If he didn't kill every grain eating bird in the country it was not his fault. Six of us search far and wide but failed
to find anything but dead squirrels & one jack rabbit. We got him to agree