149 July,31. We stopped at Mountain Iris Marsh for a few minutes when we passed at about 1:30 p.m. Tide was well out so there were very few birds near the highway but I saw from the car 10+ Hudsonian Curlews, 1 Long-billed Curlew, 1 Black-bellied Plover and 6 Willets. At Boulder Creek Turtles nest contained one unpledged bird- other in broom. Aug.2. I had about twenty minutes on the rocky coast of West Cliff Drive at Santa Cruz about 11:30 a.m. Tide was just turning. I counted eight Wandering Tattlers. Bills were long, feet yellowish, no white pattern in flight. Three Gullbends were near shore and one flew into a hole in the cliff (opposite Camberston's Nursery). Mocking bird on wire nearer ton (At the cottage in the late afternoon (about 6:45 p.m.) I heard the call of the Golden- crowned Shrike(?species several times. Then dark thin fly from near the top of the redwoods south of the College across to the top of a redwood near the road (B.R. led) where he repeated this call. I remembered then that I had heard that call and had not noticed it was not a chickadee, ?) Aug.3. Heard a Goshawk in the garden. (Rich.Ferry) Aug.4. Saw a Cassian Tern on San Francisco Bay. Aug.6. Hutton Vireo singing in garden Aug.7 At Dumbarton Bridge 11:30 a.m. Tide coming Willets 100+ Sandpipers, Western, 12+ Northern Chalapopes 1000+ Eared Grebes (fluffy brown) 5. (over)