Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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.26. MAR -1-1905 Alameda, cal. to and from San Francisco, cal. Conditions: Foggy in the morning; warm and clear in the evening Gulls followed the boat very commonly both in the even- mg:- Larus glaucescens. Very common. A few adults. A good many on the piles at San Francisco in the morning. Larus occidentalis. Becoming common. Mostly adults. Larus argentatus. A few adults. Mr. Loomis saw two or three last Sunday. Larus californicus. Common. Mostly adults. Larus brachyrynchus or Larus canus. Two or three. MAR - 2 1905 Conditions: Same as yesterday. Alameda, cal. to & from San Francisco, cal. In the morning the following birds followed the steamer across.- Larus glaucescens, common; Larus occidentalis, Common; Larus argentatus, two or three adults; Larus californicus, very common. In the evening the following were seen: - Larus glaucescens, a few; Larus occidentalis, a few; Larus californicus, a few; Larus argentatus, three or four adults and immature birds. When off the mole I saw five ducks going north; a loon and a cormorant passed to the south. Along the mole were a few ducks; I saw four bands of a- bout thirty each flying out. In the shallow water was an Ardea herodias. Quite a number of gulls were on the sand. At Fifth St. Station, I saw two Euphagus cyanoccephalus in an eucalyptus tree. A few ducks could be seen a little way off shore. This evening after I got home I heard as Nycticorax nycticorax pass over. I hear them quite frequently.