November 2, 1952, Tomales Point, N. Bay, and Dillon Beach, Marin Co. Calif. Pacific Loon - Common Loon Horned Grebe Eared Grebes Western Grebe Brown Pelicans Brandt Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Blue Heron Baldpate - 2 Pintail - 12 Surf Scoter Harlequin Duck Common Merganser Red-tailed Hawk Sparrow Hawks Black-bellied Plovers - 25& Snowy Plover - 50& Killdeer Semi-palmated Plover Black Turnstones Yellow-legs Sanderlings Red-backed Sandpipers Western Sandpipers Least Sandpipers Red Phalarope - 12-12 in winter plumage, and hardly recognizable as their action habits were completely changed. as they walked on sand, after insects. November 3, 1952, Near Winton, Merced Co. Calif., 2 p.m. Coots - 2,000 on farm pond in orchard-farm area 4 miles N of Winton. Pond of 20 acres? November 3, 1952, Grasslands, Santa Fe Grade, Gustine-Los Banos, Merced Co. Calif. Pied-billed Grebe - Blue Heron Common Egret - 75 Battern - 2 Snow Geese - 1100 and 1,000 Mallard - 1,750 Baldpate - 2,100 Pintail - 5,800 Shoveller - 2,900 Ruddy-duck - 10 Red-tailed Hawk Marsh Hawk Duck Hawk - 1 Sparrow Hawk - 15 Pheasants Gallinule - 2 Coots - 15,200 Killdeer Yellowlegs- 50 Long-billed Curlew - 1,075 Oystercatchers Heermann Gulls - 1 Western Gull California Gull Bonaparte Gull - 1 or 2 in winter plumage Short-billed Gull Anna Hummingbird Red-shafted Flicker Black Phoebe Scrub Jay Ravens Chestnut-backed Chickadees Wren-tits Pipits Audubon Warbler - very common on Pt. in Pileolated Warbler bush lupine. House Sparrow Meadowlark Brewer Blackbird Purple Finch House Finch Spotted Towhee Savannah Sparrow White-crowned Sparrows Song Sparrows Red-bakced Sandpipers - several 100 Dowitcher - 800 Avocets - dozens Calif. Gulls - 50 Red-shafted Flicker Marsh Wren Pipits Shrike Audubon Warbler W2 Meadowlark Bicolor Redwing Tricolor Redwing Brewer Blackbird House Finch White-crowned Sparrow On Nov. 3 + 4 I observed many 1000's of dowitchers on Grasslands & Los Banos Refuge. 100,000-200,000 ducks, mainly pintails or geese.