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64.
July 8, 1909.
This morning while at home I saw a flock of
about a dozen large shore birds fly over in a
southwesterly direction.
July 9, 1909.
Vicinity of Alameda, California.
Worked in San Leandro Bay and adjacent
marsh and along the south shore of Alameda as
far as Sherman Street.
Gulls. Several large ones.
As the tide ebbed large numbers of the shore
birds went out of the San Leandro Bay region
to the sand flats along the south shore of
the city and along the north shore of
Bay Farm Island. As it flooded they
took to the mud flats of San Leandro Bay; and
after it got very high I saw occasional
large flocks flying over the marsh to the
south. All the large flocks of birds I saw were
mixed; one species, however, usually far
outnumbering the others combined.
Sandpipers. Several small flocks; none shot.
Aligialitis sempalmata. Saw one.
Squatarola helvetica. Common. One or two
large flocks. Mostly all white-bellied
birds; saw perhaps a dozen dark ones out of
about one hundred birds. Not as wary as usual.
Numenius hudsonicus. Several.
Limosa fedoa. Several.