1979 Ronald L. Mumme 40 Journal Hastings, Carmel River mouth - Pt. Pinos, Monterey Co., CA (29 Oct) via the Carmel River mouth and Pacific Grove [illegible] for a little birding with Pam & Walter. At [illegible] the river mouth, we saw 2 Black-throated Gray Warblers, 1 Orange- crowned Warbler, 6 N. Phalaropes, 40 Yellow-rumped Warbler, etc. At Pt. Pinos & Crespe Pond, 5 Black Turnstone, 1 Marbled Godwit, 1 New Gull, 30 Cal Gull, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Virginia Rail, 1 Eared Grebe. 16 Nov Drove down to Hastings with Nancy (going on Mammalogy Field trip), arriving about 1400. We had a good, situation-clarifying talk on the way down. Hastings is very green for this time of year, comparable to what it was like last winter in February. Avery beautiful, brooding sort of day, with the clouds train beginning to roll in. I watch at School Hill and managed a complete census. Began hordin around 6 pm. Dinner at Red House with Russ, Judy, Pam, & Walter. Then to the school house for a Jim Patten slide show. Good company. Afterwards, I got my car stuck trying to drive up the road to the cabin. 17 Nov First thing I enlisted Rick Ostfield, Willy Bemis, and Tina Hargis to remove my car from the mud. Heard a calling American Goldfinch fly overhead. Puttered around in the morning, then finally went out to watch at Blom-one, Blom-two, and Gazebo. Cool, clearing & breezy. A good chicken dinner at Red House, complete w/ oatmeal cookies, Pattons Galapagos slides, then a good nights sleep.