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across from the dam as long as Miss G.T
Miss A. watched . It entered the water also.
Rather hot .
Sept.18. A small flock of Cedar Waxwings
- flew out of the deciduous trees across
Mosswood Rd.
Sept/19. Hot - no breeze
Sept.21. Still very hot, day and night .
Six of the Lady Birds went to Boulder
Creek by way of Dimubanton Bridge :
No grebes ; White Pelicans about 60s. (as we
neared the bridge a train crossed over the
bridge and hundreds of pelicans were in the
air. By the time we reached the stop near
the quarry they had settled.) Cormorants,
many (100+) perched among the pelicans .
Other birds seen
American Egrets 40+ ; Coots 20+ in eclipse
plumage. Clapper Rails 5; Bk. Plover 40+;
Bent's palmetto Clover 1, Killdeer several;
Godwits, very few, Walleys 100+ ; St. Yellowlegs,
5 together west of bridge. Avocets 5-8 in
one bunch (near pelicans & egrets) ; N. Phalaropes
300+ , Ring-billed Tulls 100s resting. Calif.
Gulls a few; Terms, a few Forsters,
In the late afternoon we went to Santa Cruz
where we saw about 6 Black Turnstones,
and more than 100 Sanderlings - one group
feeding ( tide very high) , one asleep on cliff near
Gulls. Many Neermann's Western Gulls.
Night cooler than in Berkeley.