Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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Grebies have been common along the mole; a few coasters have been seen occasionally on the bay and one morning three cormorants. Larus californi- cus, very common; a few Larus delawarensis seen. On the sand at the pond house there were about fifty gulls this morning. Yesterday at about noon time I saw three or four warblers in a peach tree in the back yard; Passer domesticus has of course been abundant. NOV 10 1904 San Leandro's Bay and south shore of Alameda, bal. 6:30 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. Conditions:- clear; moderate temperature; nowind: Near Melrose Slough I saw 2 or 3 large gulls, 2 or 3 terns; about 30 Squatarola squatarola. Cremetes occidentalis & Pelidna alpina were abundant. A few Actodromas minutilla were seen. I saw one or two Ardea herodias, one Nycticorax nycticorax, and one cormorant. Here outside also I saw a Columbys migricolor