1939. Sept.16. We took Miss Gladding and Miss Alter- bery to Boulder Creek and stopped at Dumbarton Bridge to look at the birds. Quite hot. (85° in San Francisco). No wind. Brown Pelican - 1 White Pelican - about 600. Cormorants - many grouped with Pelicans. American Squirrels - measuring - Painted Ducks - 40+ in eclipse plumage. Clapper Rails, about six near bridge. Bld. Plover - a few on a dyke - 15-20. Black Turnstones - in unusual numbers, about 30. Willetts - 200+ - many asleep on dyke - (Tide coming in.) Least Sandpipers - one flock 50-100, also small groups. Avocets - One group asleep - 100+ N. Phalaropes - 1000+. Caspian Terns } Forster Terns } In distance 40t. Bryant Sparrows - several, very yellow about head. Godwits - 2 Long-tailed Curlew - a few. Sept. 17. Boulder Creek. A flock of Pinyon Nutchatches were eating seeds from the cones at the top of the Douglas Firs. Apparently they look them across to the large redwoods and wicked them into the cracks. Chickadees feeding in the same firs. A Water Quail fed at the edge of the stream