128 1936. Oct. 7 - Birds increasingly abundant. Many Flickers. Golden-crowned Sparrows singing. Saw a Hermit Thrush and Townsend Warbler. Two thrashers at the pool. Very warm. (80+) Oct. 9. Went with Mrs. Kelly, Mr. R.T. Peterson, Mr. Sheldon To the bridges and Alameda. Weather warm, no wind, air smoky-shaggy. Saw very few land birds in Alameda - On Bay Farm Islands many Sanderling and sandpipers, a few Godwits, Plovers & Pluvials. 4 Common Terns and about 5 p.m. Short-eared Owls & Marsh Hawks were feeding over the wild land near the tides. From Bay Farm Island we went to The Leslie Salt Works and then on to Dumbarton Bridge where we saw hundreds of White Pelicans, many American Egrets and Three, Snowy Egrets; also 400+ Avocets and 100+ Pintails. At the Mountain View Marsh the tide was drawing out and there were hundreds of Marsh birds - Curlews, Clapper Rails, Godwits etc. About 3 p.m. We crossed San Mateo Bridge and at the East end on the tide line there were thousands + Godwits and almost as many Walleys. In the first salt pool on the south side of the highway there was a scattered flock of N. Phalaropes (100+) feeding on the surface of the water. Suddenly the birds at the east end of the pool began to rise, close ranks and form a close flock which wheeled and turned swiftly, showing now light now dark. Soon all the birds had risen and then we saw a duck hawk dart through the first flock. Eight times he dashed through, one flock or another, without catching anything. Then the birds dropped out