157 Sept. 29. Diablo Country Clubs. Birds very scarce and silent except finches and qtr. goldfinches. A few Gambel Sparrows and one Goldencrown - Possibly a Tanager. Calif. Woodpecker, Flicker, Willow Woodpecker, Titmice and slender-billed Whtbatate, Bluebirds, Pheasants Turkey Buzzard. Beautiful weather. Got 2 Crowned Sparrows (white-crown) heard as we Ran drove near Alvarado. At Dumbarton Bridge: am. 2000 White Pelicans; Am. Egrets 20-40; 4 Blue Herons Snow three and 300+ Cormorants in a salt minute pool south of the highway and much nearer of Sierra than I usually see them. It is the first time I have ever seen a large number of (300+) Cormorants there (usually none, but recently Aug.27 there were a few.) Phalaropes very few; Eared Grebes 20+; Pintails 500+; Shorellers (?) a few: W.+ Least Sandpipers 1000+, many feeding in the roadway; Avocets 2-6; Willets 1000+; Bb. Clover 20+ Mt-Viis Marsh. Tide right at 2 p.m. about four hours after high tide (5ft.6in.) at Fort Point. Hudsonian Curlew 4+; Long-billed Curlew 30-40; Bb. Clover 40-60; Willets 100-200; Least + W. Sandp. 100s Godwit 1; Yellowlegs 2 (on upper side of road). Count made from the car on the highway.