1980 Ronald L. Mumme Journal Limantour Beach, Marin County, CA 6 Jan Pete + Lois Myers invited me along with them and Anabelle Cole on a Sanderling hunt, and I saw my first Red-throated Loon in the lagoon there. Also on this calm, overcast day: Common Loon 5 Horned Grebe 25 Western Grebe 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Snowy Egret 5 Great Egret 2 Bufflehead 50 Pintail 1000 Am. Wigeon 500 Gadwall 200 Green-winged Teal 15 Shoveler 5 Surf Scoter 20 White-winged Scoter 5 Marsh Hawk 6 Least Sandpiper 40 Western Sandpiper 500 Dunlin 500 Sanderling 75 Whimbrel 1 Long-billed Curlew 2 Marbled Godwit 15 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Mew Gull 25 Short-eared Owl 8 Say's Phoebe 1 Water Pipit 1 11 Jan Hastings Reservation, Monterey County, CA Came down here on a rainy, overcast day with Larry Hanks and Nancy Joste. An exciting week, with the Phude body being found Monday, and Jimmy Bell in the hospital today. I tried to watch at Blom-one in the afternoon, but all I did was chase cows, much to the amusement of Larry. Dinner at Rod House. 12 Jan Hunter Liggett Military Reservation, Monterey County, CA A field excursion here with Walter, Nancy + Larry on a day with intermittent rain. Despite the rain, the trip proved to be very interesting, Acorn-Woodpecker-wise. It seems that the situation there is exactly the same as at Hastings: (1) The fall 1979 Acorn crop was outstanding, with excellent Quercus lobata