La Brulla Dec 7, 1979 Today was sleek day - I didn't leave the Club. George left yesterday at Dane Rhodes today, so I had no wheels. I enjoyed the leisure however. Visited the "parador" several times to watch birds on the Bay and took a long walk eastward along the shore far beyond the tomato field. Principal ducks are bufflehead, merg scoter (as I think common soster), scaup, and a few ruddy ducks. Also one swan - a young bird with gray head has spent the day paddling about the south end of the bay. Also western grebe (a "pod" swimming in close ranks, I counted 32), eared (?) grebes, one Pacific loon. Off shore birds - godwits, willets, black-bellied plovers, spotted sandpiper, an assorted geeps. Several dozen pelicans (about half young) and lots of gulls, terns, some cormorants. Ashore, Audubon warblers are everywhere, plus Say's phoebe, orange-crowned warbler, Bewick wren, house wren, kestrel, short-eared owl, marsh hawk, Brewer blackbird, Starlings, and a fine covey of 50 or so quail! They live right along the shoreline and I found them foraging this morning far out in the tomato field. I am told it has been years since there were quail here in the yard. That may be further evidence of population pressure in the countryside. Chuy tells me of a massive die-off some years back when the population was abnormally high. "Birds lying dead all over the ground." So close list: red rockhynbird, kingfisher, white-crowned and golden-crowned sparrows, brown towhee. Jailed 25 quail brought in by Howard Randle party.