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K Dixon
1948
Journal
26.
Aug. 25. Bay Farm Island, Alameda Co., Calif.
Accompanied R.W. Store, arriving on mudflats W
Golf Course at 6:50 PM - cold NW wind 6-8 mph, sun
shining, cloud or fog bank to W. Noted large flocks
of Western Sandpipers all along N-facing beach,
Marbled Godwits and Willets in small flocks
feeding along shore with Dowithers and
Black-bellied Plover about half of which were
still in varying degrees of summer plumage.
large-billed Curlew 1, Greater Yellowlegs 1, No.
Phalarope 3, Sanderling 4, Killdeer 3, Semi-
palmated Plover a few, Avocets a few large flocks.
Proceeded to gravelly sandbar near bridge to
island of Alameda at sunset (7:45) - noted here
both East and Western Sandpipers, Willets,
Black Turnstone (7), Hudsonian Curlew (2),
Marbled Godwit, Western Yellowlegs.
Pool E of Golf Course: Phalarope, yellowlegs (1)
other large species (Plover, Godwit, Willet, Dowithers).
(On large ship first visited, Pintail, Western
and Ring-billed gulls; Forsters Terns overhead).
Sept 18. U.C. Campus, Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
5:00 PM, overcast. Swamson Thrush seen in Sequoia
along creek near Faculty Glade - same bird had calloso
and subsequently answered my whistle with single
note call.