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1939.
Boulder Creek. Aug. 19-22. Cool with a shower
in the early morning Aug. 20. Each evening about
7 p.m. a Water Ouzel came in with a
rattle, sang two or three times then went to
roost on the little island just below the
house.
Aug. 21. Santa Cruz. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Tide
high. Sandpipers - 100+. Most of them
in a tight bunch asleep. A few feeding.
Tattler 1; Black Turnstones 20+. Heermann
Gulls (Black heads), Brown Pelicans, Cormorants;
Gulllets - inside the bay - 2 plus
in and three (dull colored) in holes
in cliff. Cliff Swallows - only four seen
on the cliffs just above the ocean above
Bardelton's Nursery I saw a group of Sparrows,
marked something like song sparrows (less buff)
but with outer tail feathers white. They must have been
✓ Vesper Sparrows. They stayed on the
terrace immediately above the water in
the sparse vegetation. The call note was a
[illegible] tseeep.
Aug. 22. At Mt. View Marshes the tide was just
coming in - Not many birds: Long-billed
Curlew 10+; Hudsonian 8+, two with
very pink underparts. Br. Plover 30+;
Willet 30+. Dowitchers 3. Caspian Terns 2,
Dumbarton Bridge: N. Phal. 700+; Avocets 60-80.
Willet 40+; Caspian & Fork-tailed Swallows 7. (Contin)