February 13, 1896
Warm, summery. A peach tree
is now in bloom. There are thirty-one heron nests among the sycamores on
Alhambra Creek, thirteen on one tree ... The overflow from the regular
heronry consists of about a dozen nests on large oaks on the hills to the
westward."
February 3, 1896
" John Reid says one of
the herons of the nesting-village of the sycamores in the vineyard came
today and took a general survey of the premises."