Feb.4. Cleared suddenly so we drove to Boulder Creek and back via Dumbarton Bridge. Mt. Diablo and the whole Mt. Hamilton range were white with snow and we found there had been snow at Boulder Creek during the week. Also there had been so much snow on the Saratoga Road that the road has been closed. Only a little was to be seen today and none on the roadway. Between Mt. Eden and Alameda there was a great deal of water a few Ruddy ducks, one in red plumage, and many gulls, Spoonbills, a few coots, a few pintails, many dowitchers and red-backed Sandpipers, many fiddler and some Black- bellied Plovers were seen there. At Dumbarton Bridge Spoonbills were still very abundant and two Ann. Golden Eyes - adult males in full plumage - and 50+ avocets were in the first salt pool to the north. Two red-tailed hawks were there - one on the same sign post and the other on the telegraph pole near the quarry. On the east pool the Sand Crakes were less numerous, perhaps 100 altogether. They were in small groups together with Spoonbills, feeding from the surface. Blue bills and Ruddy ducks were seen on the bay. On the way back we stopped at Mt. View Marsh at three p.m. when the tide was just going out. Birds were as abundant as any time this winter. Long-tailed Curlew were much more abun- dant than Hudsonian; Western Sandpipers very abundant. Donnellers and Dunlin ab. 1 Yellow-