155 Three small birds which flew past giving a very musical call may have been Semi-palmated Plover. At Boulder Creek Cassin's Vireo was still singing in the distance and a Tanager called. Birds scarce there. Trend hot afternoon Sept. 12. Sept. 13. A Red-breasted Nuthatch was calling in the pines above the Botanical Gardens- An Allen Hummingbird was chased by Anna's whenever he tried to feed in the Tree To- Vaccos- Very warm. Sept. 14. Yellow Warblers were seen in the maples on Durant Ave. just below Telegraph Sept. 15: A House Wren was calling near the Willow House on Morewood Road. Still warm. Sept 17. Dunnebarlor Bridge. White Pelicans - only a few (30?) Sandpipers - 100s feeding on roadway- Phalaropes - 100s- Loon ? on bay- No stop. Mountain View Marsh. Tide just drawing out. Thousands of birds at 2 p.m. Sandpipers, Western and least - 1000s- Longbilled Curlew 50? Hudsonian Curlew 1. Willetts 50? Black billed (Glover, 50? (winter plumage) Lesser Yellowlegs 1- (beside a Willet and smaller than the Willet) Clapper Rails (2) the first seen this fall. Light excellent. Numbers given refer to birds near the highway - Many farther out in marsh.