July 28. Boulder Creek. J.T.A. picked up a dead bird which I think is a young Black-throated Gray Warbler. By so, good evidence of their nesting there. He also saw a brood of about fifteen quail (just big enough to fly) with several adults in attendance. Aug. 3. We went to Boulder Creek by way of Palo Alto. At Dumbarton Bridge there were about 50 White Pelicans, a few Cn. Egrets and Carpinian Terns, many Willets and Avocets (one young avocet swimming in a salt pool) and thousands of N. Phalaropes. Cliff Swallows almost all gone — a few seen. In the afternoon I drove along the West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz. At Gull Island Pt., one Dumbellot was on the water with a fish about four inches long in its beak. It rode the breakers as they came in, changed the position of the fish until he had it by the middle instead of the tail, then finally took off heading into the wind and returning in a wide circle toward the point. I could not see just where it landed. On the rocky shore there were two or three Tattlers and three Spotted Sandpipers, wagging the rear end of their bodies in characteristic style. On the kelp covered candy beach where many W., Calif. and (Ken- wane) Tulls were resting, I counted twenty Tattlers acting as Saunders do but in scattered — each one following the wave out and racing back ahead of it. [illegible]