Bird notes, v4396
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160 1937 We went to Paso Robles where we had lunch - At Moss Landing just before sunset there were thousands of gulls - sand spits covered solidly with them. A few ducks in the lagoon; many pintails in a salt pool; a Snowy Egret gone through most energetic motions - Reached Boulder Creek about 6:30 p.m., Rain during night. Oct. 16. Clear and fresh. Kingfishers very noisy. Hermit Thrush & Pulyco. Knight heard. Returned to Berkley in late afternoon. Oct. 17. Berkeley. Many Golden-crowned Knights in the redwoods and juncos below us - Clear, warm. Oct. 18. Red-breasted Nuthatches near west of home. Mrs. Fletcher's group went to Drumberton Bridge and Mountain View Marsh. Near Alvarado we saw a group of 60+ White Pelicans circling for height. Later joined by another group. A few split off and moved westward toward the bay - The others disappeared north eastward in the bay. At the Alvarado Duck Club we saw an Anthony Green Heron and thousands of ducks - the great majority Pintails; some Shovelers and Mallards. At the Leslie Salt Works: more Pintails, a few Willets, Dowitchers & Blackbirds. Yellowlegs and Sandpipers. At Drumberton Bridge about 600 Banded Terns (one with head plumes); a few Pintails. No Phalaropes, Pelicans or Egrets. At Mountain View, tide just turning, light excellent; Long-billed Curlew 40+ (no Hudsonian) 100s Bd. Clover, 100s Willets; 20+ Dowitchers, a few Yellowlegs. Many Sandpipers (no Redact I close enough for identification), no Godwits, 6+ Rails (Clapper)