167 Dec. 4. Santa Cruz - with Mr. & Mrs. McCabe. Waram, water very calm. Tide ebbing 3-4 p.m. Brown Pelicans, fishing, great splashes of water, Baird, Brandt and Farallone Cormorants, Western Grebes (8±); Surf Scoters 1008; Sanderling 200+; Black Turnstones 15±; Bb. Glover 10± (A number of San Jose Aud. Soc. reported Curlew below Seabright) At Boulder Creek - King Fisher, Solitario Dec. 5. Mountain View Marsh 4 p.m. Tide right. 1000s of birds. From the highway we saw near by Dowitchers 300+, Willets 50+, Bb. Glover 40+, Least Sandpipers 100+, Red-backed 5.25±, Godwits 40+, Long-billed Curlew 30+, Hudsonian Curlew 8±, Lesser Yellowlegs 1 (McCabe). Birds we counted were scattered over the marsh as far as we could see. Dumbarton Bridge - water glassy, color wonderful (sunset) Sandpipers, Eared Grebes 400+; Godwits packed close together in salt pond. Willets - 1 flock 20+ flew over. Ducks: 5 flocks in flight near Alvarado. Dec. 7. Golden Gate Park, 1:45 p.m. Spent an hour in Academy of Sciences. Weak sunshine later. Near Academy Black Phoebe, Red Warbler, Pileated Woodpecker. At Children's Playgrounds: Junco, Chickadees, Nuttall Spx, Sp. Parakeet, at Stout Lake: Ruddy, Canvasbacks, a few Bluebills, Mallards, 1 Ring-necked Duck, 3 Cackling Geese, Coots. At Chain of Lakes: Mallards 100+; Ruddy, Coots, Fox Sparrow, Chickadee, Red-breasted Nutcracker (many); Virginia Wren (singing) Song Sparrow and Yellow-throat heard. Also Anna's Hummingbird, Pied-billed Grebe, and 1 Tawny Owl. At Palace of Fine Arts: Ruddy, Baldpate, Canvasbacks, Ring-necked Ducks (20?). Gulls: Western California, Ring-billed, Glaucous-winged. E.g. Sedge Sparrow, Bb. Blackbird. The Bonn's Grebe was bathing and 33 species - shortest black on the crown and white of sides of the head extending higher, leaving a narrow line of black down the back of the neck. Neck thicker than inland Grebe -