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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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April 1, 1961, Bobays Bay, Sonoma Co. Calif., 10-S o'clock PST, warm, breezy.
Common Loon - 1
Red-throated Loon - 1
Red-necked Grebe - 2
Horned Grebe - 12
Eared Grebe - 2
Western Grebe - 7
Double-crest Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Common Eider - 3
Ring-billed Gulls
Pigeon Guillemot in surf north of Bobays.
Viiolet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Woodwarcks
Common Warbler - 1
Saff Scooter - 150-200 got one
White-wing Scoter - few
Canvasback
Black Brant - 2-700
Common Eider - ?
Western Gulls
California Gulls
Sandertings - 100-200
Lear's Sandpiper
Western Sandpipers
Downwarers - 15?
with the black bellies.
Red-backed Sandpipers - 100?, some full reddish adult,
sandwiched under them, and a few more in the same area. A
fishing boat was out on the bay at 10:30 AM, with no luck.