1966 Bill Coney Journal Feb 2. San Francisco Co., Calif. Parking lot below toll plaza at Golden Gate Bridge. While waiting for Rick Tenaga & Count Commentos (Brandto probably) Counting only those entering the bay. From 8:50 to 9:00 AM 150 Cormorants counted. Meet Tenaga at 9AM. We go across the Bridge and stop at the turnout on the other side. Here we see 15-20 Pelagics roosting in an isolated rock just offshore. We also saw a large concentration of birds in the water just off the NW [illegible] Side of Angel Island. We then proceeded to Bodega. Just past the gate to the Marine lab we could see 12 red tails hovering over the meadowland S of the lab all in the air at once. The breeze was stiff. We then walked N of the Station along the rocky headland to where the cormorants were feeding last summer. Along the way we stopped to watch mixed flocks of Surfbirds and Blackturnstones. Estimate about 20-30. 3 Willots seen here also. Surfbirds have obvious yellow feet, breast is more speckled with gray than is the more uniform color of the turnstone breast. Turnstones have reddish legs, darker color, a white patch on the back beside just on the tail & wings, and the tail feathers are tipped with white. No interactions were noted between the two species, and they seemed to travel together. Would be interesting to study the foraging of the two. Surfbirds at least seem rather dove-like in their pedantic picking up & general body shape.