Bird notes, v4397
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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)