by about 50 yds., never noticed it before, would be a good place to come later, not as many birds around as on the other one. A beautiful sanddune on the seaward slope above it. On top of the sand dune, about 100-150 ft. tall, there are several violet- green swallows sunning themselves, flying around and landing in the sun. Fantastically nice dune here with fine, sorted sand, wind marks and ripples, almost no footprints. Alot of things still flowering up on the sand. Kildeer flew away. About 25 birds on a sand spit, mostly godwits, 2 avocets, dowitchers, willet, kildeers joined them, 2 more avocets. Warm even thought it's breezy, can see heat waves rising from the sand. Near the tide channel on west side of Lagoon, 1 sanderling in the company of a willet. A couple of pelicans (brown) from the seaside on to the Lagoon side, gliding about 30 ft. up over the water. A raft of maybe 30 gulls about 50 yds. offshore. A Snowy Plover flew down to the lagoon shore. It seems that most everything is here except phalaropes but not in very big numbers like they were last year. The raft appears to be Heermann's gulls, maybe immatures, too; seem to be gulls for a long ways out, surely over 100, very tight raft. 100 yds downshore from the tidal wash is a tight pack of gulls, maybe 100, Westerns and Heermann's. Shearwaters off- shore, 4 pelicans flew by. Beautiful day, a few high clouds to the north. Surf is choppy, whitecaps. Can see Pt. Reyes to the left. Not many storms recently, not much debris washed up on the beach. Back in the Lagoon 2 Black Brants sitting on a sandspit with a couple avocets and beyond a raft of many coots. Black-bellied (?) Plover also on the sandspit. Identified definitely when flew, appeared to be molting.