October 30, 1948, Bay Farm Island, S of Alameda, Alameda Co. 1430-1530 PDST. Calif. Pintails - 400 Baldpates - 50 Killdeer - 200& Semi-palmated Plover - 1 Black-bellied Plover - 1500& Red-backed Sandpipers - 1000& Willets - about 500 Godwits - 200& Western and Least Sandpipers - at least 30,000 Avocets - 800& Short-billed Gulls - 2 Bonapartes Gull - 10& October 30, 1948, Lake Merritt, Oakland, California. 1600-1630 PDST. Pied-billed Grebe - 1 White Pelican - 1 Farallon Cormorant - 10 Snowy Egret - 1 American Egret - 6 Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 Lesser Canada Goose - 5 Cackling Goose 9 White-fronted Goose - 4 Lesser Snow Goose - 7 Mallards - 250-300 Pintail - 2000 Baldpate - 200 Canvasback - imm. or F Coots - 500 California Gull - 1 ad. and many imm. Bonaparte's Gull - Forester Tern - Brewer Blackbirds - common October 31, 1948, Marsh Area at Martinez, Contra Costa Co. 4-5 p.m. Western Grebe Farallon Cormorants American Egrets Snowy Egrets Blue Heron Coots Western Sandpipers Least Sandpipers Red-backed Sandpipers California Gulls Western Gulls Ring-billed Gulls Bonaparte's Gulls W. Crows.