October 2, 1953, Napa River Estuary, Vallejo, Solano Co. Calif. 435-450 p.m. PST. Pied-billed Grebes Pintails Coots Black-bellied Plovers Killdeer Red Knot - 2 Hudsonian Curlew Marbled Godwits Western Sandpipers Avocets - no brown heads Western Gull Calif. Gulls Oct. 2, 1953, Solano Co. Marshes NW of Vallejo. 455-535 p.m. PST. Pied-billed Grebes Blue Heron Common Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Pintail - dozens Ruddy Ducks - few dozen White-tailed Kite - 1 Marsh Hawk - 2 Sparrow Hawk Virginia Rail - 1 Coots Killdeer Long-billed Curlew Greater Yellow-legs Willet Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Avocet -300 - no brown on head Northern Phalaropes - 13 in F or imm. plumage Western Gull Calif. Gull Red-shafted Flicker Marsh Wren Audubon Warbler Bicolor Redwings - 100's to E Brewer Blackbirds - 100's to E from Petaluma Cr. Song Sparrows common in Baccharis. Oct. 3, 1953, Bodega Bay and Park, Sonoma Co. Calif. 10a.m.-12noon.PST. Calm, warm. Common Loon - 1 - fall plumage Western Grebe Pied-billed Grebe - 6 in close flock on bay Parallon Cormorant - dozens Brandt Cormorant - off jetty Blue Heron - 25-30 Pintail - 37-40 Surf Scoter Vulture Sparrow Hawk Coot - 75 Black-bellied Plover - few Killdeer Black Turnstone - 7 on mud flats Long-billed Curlew - few Willet - many Least Sandpipers - dozens Red-bakced Sandpipers Dowitcher - 40 Western Sandpipers - 100's Godwits - 100's Sanderlings - 100's Northern Phalaropes - dozens Western Gull Ring-billed Gull Red-shafted Flicker Calif. Shrike Audubon Warbler Meadowlark S. F. Redwing - 250 in one cattail marsh Brewer Blackbirds House Finch Common Goldfinch Brown Towhee Savannah Sparrow White-crowned Sparrows Song Sparrows Horned Lark W. Crow Robins Western Bluebird - 2 Calif. Shrike Audubon Warbler Meadowlark S. F. Redwing - 250 in one cattail marsh Brewer Blackbirds House Finch Common Goldfinch Brown Towhee Savannah Sparrow White-crowned Sparrows Song Sparrows Robin Permit Thrush along Glen Allen Creek House Finch Lapwo Goldfinch Green-backed Towlhoo [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]