December 6, 1949, Monterey Bay, at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co. 1130-1240 Pacific Loon Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe Western Grebes Pied-billed Grebe in fresh water Brown Pelicans - 35-40- ad & imm. Farallon Cormorants - 16-20 Baird Cormorants - 40-50 Mallard - 8 on f.w. Pintail - 75 on f. w. Shoveller - 5 on f.w. Redhead - 12 on f.w. Canvasback - 15 on f.w. Lesser Scaup - 45 on f.w. Bufflehead M & F - 30 Surf Scotter - 40-50 White-winged Scoter - 4 Ruddy Duck - 25 American Merganser - 6 Coots - 1400-1500 Godwits - 25-30 Willetts - 75-100 Sanderlings - 15ø Heermann Gulls - 150 on coast A and 1 in creek or slough bathing & preening with gulls. Glaucous-winged Gull - 1 Western Gull - 200 Herring Gull - 250 California Gull - 25 Ring-billed Gull - 4 Kingfisher - 2 Black Phoebe - 2 Robin Bicolor-Redwings Dec. 6, 1949, Monterey Bay, at Moss Landing, Monterey Co. 1310-1340. at mouth of bay of Elkhorn Slough. Pacific Loon - 4-5 Red-throated Loon - 25-30 - Horned Grebe - 10-12 Eared Grebe - 1 Western Grebe - 8 Pied-billed Grebe - 11 Brown Pelican - 15-20 Farallon Cormorant - 25 Blue Heron - 3 American Egret - 25 American Golden-eyes - 14 Old Squaw - F in winter plum. Ruddy Duck - 8 Surf Scoters - 45-50 American Merganser - 12 Coots - 350-400 Black-bellied Plover - 35-40 Long-billed Curlew - 12-13 Willet - 20-25 Pecornal Sandpiper - 15-20 Red-backed Sandpiper - 9-10 Least & W Sandpipers - 100's Godwit - 60-70 Sanderlings - 700-800 Avocet - 23 Heermann Gull Western Gull Herring Gull California Gull Dec. 6, 1949, Moss Landing E on ridge about 4 miles, south of Elkhorn Slough area, 1350-1410. Vultures - 3 seen White-tailed Kite - hovered 2-3 minutes without pause - observed for 5 minutes. Kept dropping lower all the time but made no passes Would lose altitude by extending wings in a vertical "V" over back, thus slipping downward. Within ½-mile of new Steam Plant. Sharp-shinned Hawk Sparrow Hawk - 10-12 Killdeer - 12 in cattle pasture. Wilson Snipe - 1 with redwings, feeding in dung and cabbage tops put out for the cattle in this moist pasture on the ridge. Crows - flocking Pipits with redwings and snipe Meadowlarks Bicolor and Tricolor Redwings, Br. Blkbds, Purple & House Finches Nuttall White-crowned Sparrow