Very few birds have come to the table for food this fall. Seeds last for days. No Fox Sparrow seen taking seeds this fall but hear their calls each morning. Reasons: mild weather (no frost yet), abundance of food. Madrone berries in Santa Cruz hills, not yet eaten. No Varied Thrushes or Robins at Boulder. Dec.18. Boulder Creek. Mild, damp. Mushrooms every where. Mrs. Glessing made a collection. Very few birds. On the way home we passed Mt. View Marsh but tide was very high. At Dumbarton Bridge many hunters were about but Godwits and Wallels were still very abundant in the same salt pool as on Dec.17. Dec.20. Wind blew hard all night in Berkeley from the east as it did Dec.19 (now at Boulder Creek). Dec. 24. First frost of the season. Dec.25. Drove to Boulder Creek. Very clear, frost melting when we arrived about 1:30. Cleaned and burned Ponder oak until dark. Hung frost at night. Dec.26. Clear. Worked at clearing 10 a.m. to 12. Lay down in Boulder Creek 1:30 p.m., then drove to Santa Cruz. Many people on bluffs. Saw many Scoters (Dug. T. White-winged), three kinds of Cormorants, about 100 Sanderlings (heard their calls for first time - a single note, clear, sweet - "ting" (see Dec.31) saw about 30 Neovian Gulls, birds with white heads. A very large seal on top of Cormorant Rock. Dec.27. A very heavy frost and thick ice in bird pool - Boulder Creek. Very brisk white with fogglenders. Worked at clearing 10:30 a.m. to noon. Birds a little more numerous than last week: Kingfisher, Chickadees, 4-c Knightlets, Warblers (sp.? very tiny note), grousers Brown & Spotted Towhees, 6-m Siskins, Purple Finches, Hermit Thrushes, Black Phoebe. As we drove out several thrushes flew