April 2, 1955, Moss Landing, Monterey Co. Calif. 2:15-2:45 Very strong west wind. Red-throated Loon - 2 Eared Grebe - 40 Red-necked Grebe - 15 Piec-billed Grebe - 1 Brown Pelican - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 30 Snowy Egret - 5 Shoveller - 12 pr & 3M Lesser Scaup - 7 American Scoter - 1 in channel Surf Scoter - 8 Ruddy Duck - 9 Sparrow Hawk - 2 Coot - 150 Black-bellied Plover -4 Godwit - 75 Long-billed Curlew - 12 Willet - 30 Dowitcher - 150 Red-backed Sandpipers - 100 W & Least Sandpipers - 200 Sanderling - 15 Avocet - 40 W. Gull - 400 Calif. Gull - 250 Herring Gull 50 Bonaparte Gull - 200 Forester Tern Meadowlark Bicolor Redwing Brewer Blackbird House Finch April 2-4, 1955, Monterey Peninsula, Pacific Grove-Carmel, Monterey Co. Calif. Horned Grebe (oil soaked) Eared Grebe W. Grebe Brown Pelican Baird Cormorant Double-crested Cormorant Brandt Cormorant Mallards Cinnamon Teal - 7 pr. courting Common Merganser - 11 Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Sparrow Hawk Calif. Quail - 25' in pine Coots - 20 Oystercatcher Killdeer Black Turnstone 40 Hudsonian Curlew - 2 Surf Bird Spotted Sandpiper Yellow-legs Glaucous-winged Gull Calif. Gull W. Gull Herring Gull Bandptailed Pigeon,flocks 8-40 Rufous Hummers Red-shafted Flickers calling Calif. Woodpeckers in pine woods Red-breasted Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Black Phoebe Least Flycatcher Western Flycatchers Wood Pewee Horned Larks Violet-green Swallows Tree Swallows Rough-winged Swallows Crows Scrub Jays w/ nest material Steller Jay Yellow-billed Magpies Chestnut-backed Chickadees Bush Tits Brown Creeper White-breasted Nuthatches Pigmy Nuthatches common and noisy Wren-tits Robins Hermit Thrush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Pipit Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow Warbler Audubon Warbler Townsend Warblers arrived Apr. 3 p.m., none Apr. 2 Black-throated Gray Warbler Meadowlarks Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Calif. Purple Finch House Finch w/ nest material Spotted Towhee Brown Towhee Common Goldfinch Lawrence Goldfinch Juncos White-crowned Sparrows singing Golden-crowned Sparrow Fox Sparrows Sang Sparrows