Field notes, v504
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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