Bird Away Journal Bolinás Bay, Main St., Calif. (7) Nov. 11, 1966 breeding plumage; it's beautiful--the breast is white right up to the neck. I'll drive on past this place to see what there is here. Just arrived at a new place approximately 3/4 mi. east around the south side of Bolinás Bay and am now watching a group of about 50 Double-crested Cormorant all on pilings, on an old abandoned pier. Of course, the pier part is gone but the pilings are left. I'll be able to get some observations on these, I hope. They're all taking off now, every one of them is taking off to the southwest. Oh, what a shame! They were airborne very quickly right off those pilings. It'd be interesting to see how on a still day they can get airborne much faster than the Brandts. Now they're circling off to the north, northeast. There are some cormorants in the water out there that are looking at them. Some of them are wheeling back to the west, some still going east. The ones going east are making a big circle, still going east. There is a flock of 9 about 20 yds. into the bay from the piking. Maybe I can get some observations if they care to perform. I guess I missed those before. Their heads are all pointed east; there are 5 out in front, 1 in the middle, then another loose group of 3 behind. I don't know if I spooked those others off or not; I don't see how I did because they were all very quiet here; just all of a sudden whoosh. I see some Surf Scoters out there now; on the way over I saw a Snowy Egret, kingfisher, Pie-billed Grebes. There are some Horned Grebes out here, too, I think. I mentioned the Arctic Loon. There's a Golden-eye going by. So it's very birdy today. These cormorants still haven't dove; I don't know if they're fishing or just what. I see a huge flock of birds on the other side, I guess shore birds, maybe willetts or avocets. A very big flock, I don't know what they're doing. White on the wings. That was an impressive display of flight power of the Double crests off these pilings; they're no more than 4 ft. over the water, mostly about 2 1/2 ft.