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Feb 19 1934. Lv Portland 8:00 AM and arrive at Newport 2:00 PM. Check birds on bay [[insert]] Found no Brant [[/insert]] & talk to natives return to collage at 8:00 PM Braleys with us. New fan belt. Feb 11, 1934 To Depoe Bay & out on ocean for a while. Found no birds to speak of. Even Col. Murres absent. Saw a few cormorants = gulls & marbled murrelets [[strikethrough]]and[[/strikethrough]] 1 Loon, a western grebe & a few scoters. Returned to cottage. Feb 12, 1934. At Lake all AM. and hiked over hills back of Lake. Found blue jay. Fox sparrow etc & one farmer named Thompson who complained bitterly about the Evening Grosbeaks eating his cherries. Described them accurately & [[strikethrough]] said [[/strikethrough]] they had only bothered. Returned home 8:00 P.M. Feb 13, 1934 In office general office work. Interuppted much by callers and telephones. Including Eliot-- Ken & others. In evening to Ike Walton meeting at Chester McCarty's office & then to Portland Press Club brawl for a while & home. [[underline]]Feb 14, 1934[[/underline]] In office all morning & worked on the birds of Oregon. To Salem in evening to help organize a new Ike Walton chapter. Returned at midnight with Igo & Davidson. Feb 15, 1934 In office all morning. Spend day answering mail and caring for office matters. Lunch with John Ebbenger & wife and then to St Helens. Dinner at Dr. Daltons & lecture to Garden club on Oregon Birds. Feb 16, 1934 In office. Received wire ordering me to