Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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36. Passer domesticus. Along the seawall I saw a few Nycticorax nycticorax and a good many gulls. In a slough near the roundhouse I saw one snipe, on the marsh a flock of about fifty curlew or godwit. On the beach at the junction there were a few sandpipers. From two to three hundred gulls were strung out in groups along the bare sand beside the mole. Larus occidentalis and Larus californicus were distinguished. On the bay I saw only a few gulls — Larus occidentalis, Larus californicus, and Larus heermanni. San Francisco to Alameda, cal. Conditions: 5:15 P.M. to 5:35 P.M. clear; warm; light west wind. On the trip over I saw only a few Larus occidentalis owing to my unfavorable position. At the roundhouse there was a flock of about 50 gulls — Larus occidentalis was among them. About a dozen sandpipers were also busy feeding on the sand. Alameda, cal. Conditions: — 7:15 P.M. clear; warm; now wind. An Aphelocoma californica was perched in a pear tree busily wiping his beak. Evidently he had just finished a repast on pears. One Tetrindo erythrogaster flew by. July 28, 1904. Alameda to San Francisco, cal. Conditions: — 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 A.M. clear; warm; west wind.