1939. Jan. 2. As weather seemed propitious we started to Boulder Creek but changed our plan and drove to Carmel and on to the Big Sur. From Gilroy on it was cloudy and at the Big Sur it was raining gently. We spent the night at the 17 Mile Drive Cottage Court. Along the shore from Carmel south gulls were very numerous but no other birds were seen as we drove along. I was not sure I could see the others but I saw what may have been others, swimming just below the surface, close together at the place where they have been seen this past year. Jan. 3. It rained a little during the night but not after we were ready to start on to Boulder Creek. There were pygmy nuthatches calling in the tops of the pine trees at the campground. At Moss Landing I saw no shore- birds. But there was one male Red- bristled Merganser in full plumage, just above the highway bridge. It was very striking with its black head with its double crest, red beak, white neck, red breast, white underparts, and red feet. When I came too near it rose and circled then flew across the bridge just in front of me, showing the basal half of the wings white. Very graceful diver.