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fence here down near the water for quite
a ways. On the other side it appears
there's no real good shore bird habitat
because the rocks come right down.
A small covey of ruddy ducks offshore about
50 yards. A Black Phoebe about 25 yds.
from the shore on a big log. Along east
side along the fence there are some areas
where the grass comes down, cow pies all
over it. No birds where rocks go to
shore, no foam here, looks like waves are
being blown to the west side almost com-
pletely by the wind. A black turnstone
by the shoulder, standing on one leg;
legs are dark, not real pink like the
Ruddy's. There seem to be lots of Ruddy's out in the middle. Above the Lagoon, a
Savannah Sparrow and a Song Sparrow.
Vegetation is long grass, low baccharis,
ferns, low blackberry, and other dried
up plants, a flowering composite, like a
dandelion, saw 2 with in them. The wind kicked up a little,
can see definite parallel wind lines all
the way across the Lagoon and whitecaps.
Baccharis is flowering. All the plants
aren't flowering. On cliff above the
water almost to the west end looking across
on the sandy shore, there were alot of
pintails, a couple widgeon in the water,
1 ruddy duck up on the shore, real nice
cinnamon red color. There are some
avocets on this end too, 1 or 2. Some
other small shore birds, can't identify,
probably willets and godwits. 5 Brown
Pelicans soaring over the middle. Around
the cliff at the far western point, there's
another lagoon that almost connects with
it off to the east and in the far distance
a farm house. I think I've seen this from
the road. A little trickle of water runs
from the upper to the lower one, separated