March 28-30, 1953, Monterey Peninsula, Pacific Grove-MalpasO Creek, Monterey Co. Calif. Red-throated Loon Horned Grebe - uncommon Eared Grebe - common western Grebe Pied-billed Grebe-fresh water Brown Pelicans - Double-crested Cormorant Brandt Cormorant Baird Cormorant Blue Heron Common Egret Black Brant- in Bay and along coast Mallard - fresh water Baldpate- fresh water Pintail- fresh water Cinnamon Teal - fresh water-paired Shovellers - fresh water Lesser Scaup - found on bay Surf Scoters White-winged Scoter Ruddy Duck Red-breasted Merganser - sev. along coast Common Merganser Vulture Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Marsh Hawk Duck Hawk Sparrow Hawk Calif. Quail - in town and woods Coots Snowy Plover Killdeer Black-bellied Flover Surfbird Black Turnstones [illegible] Willet Red-breasted Sandpiper W or Least Sandpiper Sanderling Avocet Glaucous-winged Gull Heermann's Gull Calif. Gull Ring-billed Gull Western Gull-most common Forster Terns Calif. Murre - summer plumage Rhinoceros Auklet - " " Mourning Doves Screech Owl Anna Hummingbirds Rufous Hummingbirds Red-shafted Flicker Belted Kingfisher - seashore cliffs Downy Woodpecker Black Phoebe Violet-green Swallow Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Scrub Jay Yellow-billed Magpies Crows Chestnut-backed Chickadees Pigmy Nuthatches common and noisy Calif. Creeper Monterey Wren-tit Bewick Wren Mockingbird Robins Hermit Thrush - at edgeof oast Western Bluebirds Ruby-crowned Kinglets Golden-crowned Kinglets CedarWaxwings Shrike Audubon Warblers Orange-crown Warbler Western Meadowlark Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Cowbirds Purple Finch House Finch Common Goldfinsh Spotted Towhee Savannah Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Juncos White-crowned Sparr ws Song Sparrows 2254