and Outer January 27, 1949, Inner/Mission Bays, San Diego Co. 710-735 and 915-1030 a.m. Common Loon - 1 in Horned Grebes - 12& Eared Grebes - 8-10 Western Grebes - 15-20 Pied-billed Grebes - several seen Brown Pelicans - 8-10 Farallon Cormorants Blue Herons Common Egrets Snowy Egrets Black Brant - about 500 seen in scattered bunches. Mallards - very few at mouth of Cudahy Creek Pintails Baldpates Shovellers Lesser Scaup Ducks Buffle-heads - full males and females - mostly paired - total 75-80 Surf Scoter - 1 at NE corner of inner bay Ruddy Ducks - few American Mergansers - 3-4 Coots common Killdeer Hudsonian Curlew - 5-10 seen Long-billed Curlew - 40-45 seen Marbled Godwits - several hundred in area. Willetts - over 500 in area Dowitchers - 3 seen Wilson Snipe - 2 Red-backed Sandpipers - 7 Ring-billed Gulls California Gulls Western Hulls Herring Gulls Mourning Doves California Shrikes W. Meadowlarks San Diego Redwings in Cudahy Creek cattails English Sparrows California Purple Finches San Diego Song Sparrow (M. m. cooperi) January 27, 1949, San Ysidro, San Diego Co. 830-845 a.m. Marsh Hawk male Ring-billed Gulls Meadowlarks, San Diego Redwings January 27, 1949, La Jolla, San Diego Co., 1030-11 a.m. Sctd clouds, sunny, calm Farallon Cormorants American Egrets - 3 seen perched 1/2-mile out to sea on kelp beds. One was observed in trouble, with its legs tangled in the kelp. Ruddy Turnstones - 9 Sanderlings - 15-20 Heerman Gulls - beautiful adults, w/red bill, white head, and sooty body. Very neat! Western Gulls, Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, California Gulls. Black Phoebes- several California Mockingbirds W. Meadowlarks House Finches Pinus torreyana Monarch butterflies.