26. conditions:- Warm; NW wind; clear. Along the mole in the morning I noted only a few ducks and in the evening only three or four, apparently scoters. I saw several flying Towards the north high in the air when just east of Goat Island this evening. On the sand left bare by the retreating tide near the round house, I saw this evening a flock of seventy-five or one hundred gulls, apparently gulls, and two ducks maddling about, picking up morsels. The gulls appeared to be mostly Larus californicus. All of the gulls observed on the piles at both moles were immature Larus glaucescens, save one immature Larus californicus. These former birds are very bold; every once in a while one will jump from one pile to another using its wings and in fact sort of half-jump, half-fly across the space of a foot and a half or two feet. When following the steamers and picking up scraps, both species usually alight on the water