Field notes, v504
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(6) Nov. 4, 1966 Bellevista Pt., Marin Co., Calif. Bill Arney Journal after only 5 seconds. There are 2 gulls surrounding him out there, they're calling. Looks like he came up with a fish then dove right away. Possibly it was another cormorant. Now he's up again about 13 seconds after he surfaced the last time. He's between the 2 gulls again, nothing in his bill. He dove again between them after 7 sec. I don't know how to interpret that last thing. He's up after 27 sec. and down in 3 sec. I can't keep this up because I can't keep them straight. The grebes are still out there; they've been sitting the same way since I got here. There seems to be no diving activity at all among them. They're all resting, preening, looking around. There's a Pelagic out there now; maybe I can get some observations on him. He looks like he just came off of the rock into the water. He's swimming back towards the rock, paddling on the surface, out of sight. Some of the grebes are diving now; I can see them leaving the surface with a quick characteristic wing beat and they just disappear under the surface. like an Alcid I guess. 3:31 1/2: another count. The water still appears to be moving in the Golden Gate. I don't know how much this means; this could be just flowing over the denser more saline layers. Water may