May 9-12, 1954, Monterey Peninsula, mainly at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, Calif. Rain on 9th, fogs and clouds on 10th, and clear on 11th. Pacific Loon - few Red-throated Loon - 1 F or imm. Double-crested Cormorants Brandt's Cormorants - on nests at Pt. Lobos, and others carrying seaweed to nest sites. Baird's Cormorants Brown Pelican - 1 Pair at Pt. Pinos. Pink-footed Shearwaters - 12's Sooty Shearwaters - 1100-1500 offshore. on water in morning, and busy soaring in p.m. Duck Hawk - 1 Sparrow Hawk - few California Quail - F in lead & 300 yards. Black Turnstone - 3 Wandering Tattler - 2 W. Gulls Herring Gulls Calif. Gulls. Pigeon Guillemots Band-tailed Pigeons - 2 on TV antennae near Asilomar. Red-shafted Flicker - nest in Monterey Pine on west side at 23' ht. Dia. 12". Calif. Woodpeckers Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Black Phoebe - Western Flycatcher Wood Pewee Violet-green Swallows - investigating nest holes of Chestnut-backed Chickadees in snag. Western Crows - few pairs seen - and then 30 or so called in with crow call to Asilomar. Bush Tits - 8 Chestnut-backed Chickadees - nest with young. Hole at 11' on WNW side of 15" dia. Mont. Pinesna Pigmy Nuthatch - several noisy pairs in area. Nest at 35' on NNW side of Mont. Pine - face open Robin House Finches drank and bathed regularly. Hermit Thrushes Purple Finch - nest on rafter under eave. Fileolated Warbler Spotted Towhees Audubon Warbler Pt. Pinos Junco Meadowlark White-crowned Sparrows common Brewer Blackbirds Song Sparrow. May 12, 1954, Moss Landing, Monterey Co. Calif. 9:30-9:40 a.m. Eared Grebe - full plumage Calif. Gulls Snowy Egret - 2 Western Gulls Black Brant - 2 Common Tern Surf Scoter - 2 Forster Tern White-tailed Kite - 1 Least Terns Sparrow Hawk Barn Swallow - 2 Coots - 3 Redwings and BBB Willetts - 12 House Finches Godwits - 7 White-crowned Sparrows Long-billed Curlews - 8 Song Sparrows. Northern Phalarope - 1 fullplumage