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but for an instant, keeping the wings uplifted
and outspread:
April 12, 1907.
Alamedas to and from San Francisco, Cal.
Conditions: Warm; clear; NW wind.
Yesterday morning I noted on the beach near
the roundhouse when the tide out about one
hundred and fifty or two hundred small sand-
pipers. In the evening a flock of about fifty
ducks were seen going NW high in the air
in a slightly V formation. They were observed
when we were off Goat Island. Three
or four were seen going in a similar direction,
but they were flying close to the water.
Two or three ducks were noted this evening
high in the air, going north. Along the
shore a few Scamp ducks and Scoters still
linger.
Near the roundhouse this evening were
3 or 4 hundred gulls on the bare sand and
also a few sandpipers. The former birds occur
in great numbers on the roofs of the