135 Dec.9- Lady Birds next back to the fresh water pond north-east of Vallejo and back by Sears St. Cut-off Birds were very abundant - more ducks than I have seen anywhere this year except at Lake Merritt. Weather warm, clear Hills still dry as there has been no rain since Oct.30. Birds seen: Pied-billed Grebe (q.b.), Farallon Cormorants (6-8), St. Blue Heron, Am. Egret, Black or Night Heron. Bittern, White-fronted Goose (10+ on pond), Mallard, Green-wq. Teal, Shoveller, Pintail (2), Canvasback (2), Buffle-heads (15-20), Ruddy (ab), Turkey Vulture, White-tailed Kite (1), Ferruginous Rough-legged Hawk (1), Marsh Hawk (ab) Prairie Falcon (1), Sparrow Hawk, Coots (1000+), Killdeer, Black-bellied Plover (a few), W. Willet (very few), Greater Yellowlegs (many), Long-billed Dowitcher (40+), W. Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit (40+), California, Ring billed & Bonaparte Gulls, Short-eared Owl, Kingfisher, Black Phoebe, Tule Wren, W. Bluebird (in Berkeley), Pipits (ab.), Calif. Shrike, Audubon Warbler, Meadowlark, Brewer Blackbird, Lanius, Wilson's Snipe, Song Sparrow (q.b.), Savannah Sparrow. 45 sp. Dec. 15- Rain - a fraction of an inch. Snow in nets. Dec. 16-18- Beautiful weather. Dec. 19. Cloudy. Drove to Boulder Creek and back via Dumbarton Bridge. In the morning (11 a.m.), There were no egrets or pelicans but in the westernmost salt pools there were about a thousand pintails and cack greeves and a large flock of Bonaparte Gulls, settled on the water and feeding from the surface. On the bay the tide was low and. There were large