50 Tomales Bay State Park 1800-1930 RCA station, south point cave, roads Point Reyes area: Inverness, Olema Marsh, Tomales Bay, Schooner Bay 1400-1800 Bob Andrews Kathy Alderson overcast, cold, 15-50mph wind, Common Loon 4 Arctic Loon 1 (+ Don + Jolie Roberson - owlings) at Tomales Bay State Park Horned Grebe 5 Eared Grebe 5 Western Grebe 15 Bred-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Common Egret 8 Black Brant 50 migrating west along coast Mallard 5 Green-winged Teal 3 Cinnamon Teal 25 American Widgeon 10 Canvasback 5 Lesser Scaup 5 Common Goldeneye 2 Bufflehead 5 Surf Scoter 200 Common Scoter 6 - south point cave Red-breasted Merganser 1♀ Turkey Vulture 20 White-tailed Kite 2 - outer Point Reyes - unusual locality? Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 15 Rough-legged Hawk 1 black belly, pale head, pale underwings with black wrists, black tail with white base Sparrow Hawk 10 Outer Point Reyes American Coot 200 Hilldeer 10 Black-bellied Plover 75 Black Turnstone 200 - feeding on scraps at oyster bed pier on Schooner Bay Willet 50 Dunlin 100 Western Sandpiper 10 Marbled Godwit 200 Sanderling 10 American Avocet 1 Schooner Bay - scarce on outer Point Reyes Glaucous-winged Gull 3 Western Gull 10 California Gull 5 Mew Gull 1 gull (sp) 200 Barn Owl ** 1 Great Horned Owl 2 ? Spotted Owl * - (call described here found to be given by Saw-whet on 4-4-73) 1 - Tomales Bay S. Park - attracted to squeaking - flew right over us - silhouette seen, but not well enough to count it. Call an eerly rising screechy whistle Saw-whet Owl ** 1 - attracted to call imitations and began calling - Silhouette glimpsed as it flew overhead