P. DeBenedetti 1964 Aug. 16 Bay Bridge Toll Plaza, Oakland, Calif. went down c. 4 P.H. for a 6 P.H. high tide didn't give as complete a check as usual, as we were chased out of the current area. Water too high at the gun club to find many shorebirds. Saw: 2 Brown Pelicans 10 Semipalmated Plover 10 Killdeer 15 Black-bellied Plover 5 Black Turnstones 15 Long-tailed Cuckoo 25 Willets 25 Short Bill Dowitcher (by call) 900 Western Sandpiper 25 Marbled Godwits 25 Avocets 55 West. Gulls 25 Calif. Gull 10 R.B. Gulls 125 Forster's Terns 18+ Elegant Terns 15 Caspian Terns 1 Black Tern. A few of the Plovers were in breeding plumages, as were a few terns, but everything else was in winter plumage.