Carmel to the Big Sur Vicinity, Monterey Co., Calif. March 8, 1942 11 AM to 5:30 PM. with Mrs S.O.William & Alice William. Left Carmel about 11 Am and drove to the Big Sur River stopping at various places en route to listen to the White-crow Sparrows whose songs came from point to point. At the Big Sur we stopped to listen for grasshopper sparrows which S.O.W. says next there but it was apparently too early in the year for them. We drove up the highway (#1) beyond the river to the home of Mrs S.C.Potter where we left Mrs W & Alice & went down the coast to look for sea otters which we found (see species account.) I was surprised to see three great blue herons [illegible] on the shelf quite a way out from shore. There were also numerous sealsions to be seen, mostly rolling about on the surface of the water. This is a county of steep, rocky mountains covered with chaparal (Artemisia is common) and deep redwood canyons. The highway crosses one of these canyons where you can look out over the tops of the redwoods perhaps 2-300 ' high. A pair of bald eagles nested here (according to Saidlaw Williams) until about 1935.