E.C. Alderik 1937 many complaints about the cries of the beached live birds due to hunger. The noise created by these dying birds was stated to be "almost dinning". Their method of killing was with a .22 rifle or club. Upon asking if he thought those birds would still be present for our purposes, he said probably not because of an unusually high tide the night before. We found it much the same as he said. Many were buried or washed out to sea. Analyzing his descriptions it seems he killed a good many scoters, gulls, and some mergansers. He said that the healthy gulls would harass the oily ducks. From there we went up the coast from Bolinas. We only went a short ways because the high tide came completely up to the banks, not giving any chance for birds to be beached! Probably here many of the birds were drowned when the rising tide came in washing away those live birds that sought