Remsen, J.V. 1975 Journal Dec. 14 Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles Co., Calif Areg: Pt. Fermin, San Pedro Breakwater, Harborville, South Coast Botanic Garden Time: 1015 - 1515 Wind: 0-15 SE Sky: clear Temp: 60 Species: Red-throated Loon | Black Phoebe Pied-billed Grebe | Barn Swallow Brown Pelican | Common Crow Double-crested Cormorant | Bush tit Great Blue Heron | N. Mockingbird Hullard | Am. Robin Red-tailed Hawk | Hermit Thrush Am. Mestrel | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher California Quail | Ruby-crowned Kinglet Am. Coot | Water Pipit Black-bellied Plover | Cedar Waxwing Ruddy Turnstone | Common Starling Black Turnstone | Audubon's Warbler Long-billed Curlew | Common Yellowthroat Willett | House Sparrow Sanderling | Western Meadowlark Glarcors-winged Gull | Red-winged Blackbird Thayer's Gull | Brewer's Blackbird California Gull | Brown-headed Cowbird Ring-billed Gull | House Finch Mew Gull | American Goldfinch Bonaparte's Gull | Lesser Goldfinch Heermann's Gull | Rufous-sided Towhee Forster's Tern | Brown Towhee Rock Dove | Oregon Junco Morning Dove | White-crowned Sparrow Spotted Dove | Fox Sparrow Anna's Hummingbird | Lincoln's Sparrow Allen's Hummingbird | Song Sparrow Common Flicker | Red-breasted Sapsucker | Comments: last night the following birds were observed feeding at night on Newport Bay between 1930 and 2230 on an outgoing tide: Great Blue Heron (1) (actively fishing), Black-crowned Night Heron (1), N. Shoveler (100+), N. Pintail (2+), Long-billed Curlew (3), Marbled Godwit (2), Am. Avocet (300), dowitcher (sp) (30) - except for the two herons, these species rely more on touch than vision to secure food - no diving birds, coots, gulls, terns, or plovers were noted. Moon not particularly bright - half full.