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Alameda to San Francisco, bal.
Conditions: - 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 A.M. Clear; warm; light breeze.
Saw a few Barpodacus mexicanus in a pear tree in the
yard; before I left for the train. Of course I saw a good many Passer domesticus all through town.
Along the seawall I saw a few gulls and a few large shore
birds. In the marsh and on the mud left bare in the slough
near the roundhouse there were a good many curlews.
Along the mole I saw sandpipers, two or three hundred gulls,
and two Ardea herodias which flew as the train passed.
On the bay I saw a few Larus occidentalis and Larus californicus.
San Francisco to Alameda, bal.
Conditions: - 5:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M. Clear; excessively warm; light
westerly wind.
I saw a few Larus occidentalis, Larus californicus, and Larus heermanni on the trip to the mole. I also saw one Uria troile.
At the roundhouse there were about forty gulls, and on
the marsh nearby a flock of curlews. (?)
After I got home I saw a good many Passer domesticus;
two humming-birds and an Aphelocoma california. This
last was pecking vigorously at a pear up in a tree.
July 30, 1904.
Alameda, bal. to San Francisco, bal.
Conditions: - 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 A.M. Overcast; warm; light westerly
wind.
Passer domesticus was to be seen all through Alameda. Along
the seawall there were a few gulls.
At the roundhouse I saw about 60 sandpipers on the mud. A-