salt pool (south side of highway) Some Cliff Swallows too. In one place a group of about 40 Phalaropes were standing on a spit and several of them were larger than the Northern, showed no red, backs grey with no contrasting streaks, bills heavier than N. Possibly imm. Red Phalarope. The Pelicans were lined up along the R.R. embankment to the south. Aug. 6. Boulder Creek. Fog until about noon. The young Cooper Hawk was calling from the same branch where he was perched last week. I heard a W.W. Wren. Very few bird calls. Aug. 7. Returned to Berkeley via Drum Bridge. Tide coming in at Mt. V. Marsh and mud exposed was dry and gleyy. Very few birds seen. - a few Willets, one Lb. Curlew, a flock of Killdeer and several Caspian Terns. willets 100+ At Dumbarton Bridge: Avocets 100+, Least Sandpipers 50 possibly- one to four at a time (no other kinds); 40 Phalaropes 100+ almost all in winter plumage (imm.) One bird asleep on a rock was a female in full plumage. W. Pelicans - two groups of about 50 each. Caspian and Forster's Terns. I saw the white bird of July 29, nearer the road. It must be an albino [illegible] grebe or [illegible]