J.P. Myers 1973 Journal Golfo San Jose, ~16 Km N by road from the intersection of Racial Rtes #2 #3, Peninsula Valdes, Provincia de Chubut, Argentina 22 October the weather today has been dreadful - no wind (or very little), few scattered clouds, temp in high 60's. On the dirt road from the main road saw crusted tinamou (sp?) a tawny-throated dotterel, and 2 Patagonian hawks. Also flocks of finches, or mockingbirds. The dirt road leads to a large cove in Golfo San Jose, which, at low tide, is bordered by an extensive muddy sand border, and to the north by the same plus a Salicornia - White Flat. The muddy-sand flat is perforated by small ponds, up to 20' long and a few inches deep, as well as one stream which appears to be flowing in. The Salicornia has a series of deep ditches running out toward the ocean; they have water in them, and are occasionally bordered by a thin edge of sand or mud. Within the Salicornia are patches of exposed, often caked and dried mud, varying in size from a foot or less across to 30' or more. The latter are much less common than the former. The Salicornia flat extends from a pronounced rise, where terrestrial vegetation (sparse xeric scrub cropped heavily by sheep) begins out to high tide line. It looks as if the Salicornia is at least infrequently covered by high tide, judging from the water lines along the edge of the above-mentioned rise. Tidal when we arrived was very low. There were many white-rumped sandpipers out on the mud-sand, most of them around the edges of the ponds. We saw flocks of several hundred WR flying. Also a few (10) Bairds in the Salicornia, and 2 Knots out along the ocean (far) at the ponds). We chose a campsite, 30' from the edge of the rise, behind a clump of trees. On the other side of the trees, ~50' into the Salicornia, was a flock of 470-500 white-rumps getting ready to roost (1830). They stayed in the area till as late as I could see (~2000), but were not out there when I walked out at 2200. Although at that time (2200) there were isolated WR in the Salicornia. During the afternoon we had also seen Charadrius falcklandii on the beach + Salicornia (many of them), albatross, Macronectes, and whales!! The whole area lies than 3 miles off