Field notes, v1670
Page 327
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D. Strong 1925 (Copy) /34 heaps of clam shells, one that covered perhaps 1/2 an acre but of no depth, not broken, and containing so far as we saw no artifacts. Many stones are in evidence -- but little else save the varied flotsam of an ocean beach. On a pond near the ocean I saw one Snowy Plover, which acted suspiciously as tho it were nesting. Also saw a Jack rabbit in the dunes, Skunk, Wildcat and Coy- ote tracks. Out at sea an immense flock of sea birds, apparently all shear-waters with about fifty Brown Pelicans were circling over a school of fish. The flock was perhaps two miles long, 200 yds. wide or more, and to a height of twenty feet above the water. A vast collection! This evening Schaffner, Pijoan, Cooper etc. came in after a wild and hurried trip up the mt. All gave out at the Oaks, but Cooper and the other boy, who rode with Melling up to the Vallecitos rim, took photos and then down the north end of the mts. Melling came down to San Antonio with them. Had an interesting discussion tonight, much to the disgust of H. who was fixing a tire. June 13, 1925. Drove with the two other machines down the San Antonio canyon and investigated a cave about 200 yds. north and above the canyon, about 1/2 mile east