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I spent a day with Leona Draheim. Leona sends best wishes to her 
friends in Chicago. We had a lovely day together, talking over old times 
and seeing birds about Altadena. To show what stores they have in 
California, she took me to Bullock’s, which is to Pasadena as Field’s is 
to us. It is on a much grander scale, though. The birds seen in Altadena 
were mountain chickadee, ringed dove, bush tit, plain titmouse with five 
young, brown towhee, hooded oriole, steller’s jay, house finch, and spotted 
dove. 
While at the Kerrville Audubon Camp of Texas, I had the pleasure 
of meeting Mr. & Mrs. O. M. Stultz from El Monte, California. Mrs. Stultz 
is the director of the San Gabriel River Wildlife Sanctuary; her assistant 
director is Mrs. M. Gertrude Woods. Mrs. Stultz invited me to the 
sanctuary when in Kerrville, as I hoped then to go to the California camp. 
So back to Los Angeles I next went to visit Mrs. Stultz and spent an 
interesting day with her. While she was getting ready to take me to 
Ocean Beach, I went for a walk through part of the sanctuary. There 
was a number of birds ‘at her feeding station. I saw black-chinned huming- 
birds, the California thrasher, valley quail, male and female, western 
house finch, blackheaded grosbeak, and mockingbirds. There was an 
imported pair of Eastern cardinals, and the Pyrrhuloxia or Arizona cardi- 
nal. At the beach we saw the snowy plover and some Belding sparrows, 
like our Savannah sparrows only darker. There were numbers of Heer- 
man’s, Western, and ringbilled gulls. The California gulls had left for the 
north to nest. When at Lake Tahoe (the Audubon camp), we saw a 
California gull and the least, Forster’s, and Caspian terns. 
In a waterway across the highway from the ocean, we saw Western 
willets, spotted sandpiper, killdeer, and Brewster’s snowy egret. Sleeping 
side by side were a Western grebe and a ruddy duck. It was a strange 
sight. At another good birding spot we found the long-billed and Hud- 
sonian curlews feeding together. Here we heard light-footed rails calling, 
but could not find one until I finally saw a small black bird, another, and 
then another until there were seven. The parents came out to lead the 
babies single file up a sandy slope over to another Salicornia swamp. 
Mrs. Stultz was delighted, for she had not seen this performance before. 
Later we saw several other adult rails. Moving on, we found an Anna’s 
female humingbird, and thought we caught sight of a blue grosbeak. 
A dwarf cowbird was on the curb. There were many common redwings and 
tricolored redwings. Tri-colors and lightfooted rails were new to my life 
list. These rails are similar to the clapper rail on the East coast. I saw 
clappers when I attended the A. O. U. convention at Charleston, South 
Carolina, some years ago. 
Mr. Stultz’s treat to us was a sea food luncheon at the Sword fish 
restaurant on the beach, as he could not be with us. Mrs. Stultz is a 
delightful person to know. Many school children come to the sanctuary 
to study nature and conservation. Her museum adds much to their 
knowledge of the different kinds of snails, frogs, snakes, fish and lizards. 
The children are taught the care of these animals and can rent them 
to take home as they would a book from a library. Then they return 
