Bird Survey Journal St. Baker, beneath Golden Gate Bridge Marin Co., Calif. (5) Nov.11,1964 very far he dipped into the water, went at an angle towards the water, swooped down and hit his tail on the water, then took off again, which is interesting because of the fairy tail that a cormorant had to get his tail wet before he could fly, and undoubtedly this is what he was doing, getting his tail wet. But of course all the latter-day scientists pooh-pooh ed this idea saying it's only because the cormorant has trouble getting airbourne and therefore loses altitude before he gets up speed. I wouldn't say for sure but it looks like he dipped into the water on purpose, he didn't have to fly down there. Many of the others don't dip very much at all; they can get going right off the rock at the same time. This one looks like he dipped down and touched his tail on purpose. It looks to me like all the cormorants on the rock this morning are Brandts. I haven't seen them all, but the ones that I've seen clearly have been Brandts. 7:55. Still hasn't really cleared up yet; there's a low misty cloud hanging over that keeps dropping a heavy precipitating mist on us. I see there are some clear skies to the south, but all in all it looks like it may continue to be misty for awhile. 8:00: another 5 min. observation: In--12; Out--1. A couple of observations on some gulls here. Some- body through out of their car what looks like spaghetti on a paper plate with some paper. A groupdef-about 2 Western Gulls came in first, followed by about 3 others that are almost adult, and started eating this. The interesting thing is that there is a dominant bird here; he looks like a big male, much larger than the others, has a bit of brown splotching on his neck. He fends off the others from the food; he chases off all the other gulls except for one which appears to be his mate, looks like the smaller of the 2. There's no aggressive action against this one. Now a couple of immature gulls have come to try to partake and were driven off, too. He ate a big piece of paper with the foodstuff smeared on it. There are a pair of Pelagic Cormorants on the rock