Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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Hawkes. A berchneis sparveria on road on Point Sur itself. Distant large hawks. Sayornis nigricans. Three as usual. Otocorys alpestiris. A flock of twenty or so on edge of small freshwater lagoon. Zonotrichia leucophrys. As usual on Point Sur. September 21, 1911. Point Sur to 1 mile north of Little Sur River, california. P. M. Overcast; slight drizzle; moderate temperature. I'm going up me cut across the sandflat and then went over the old stage road and hills coming down on the south side of the lagoon. I'm returning we were at sea level all the way except when crossing the tip of the promontory at the south end of the Little Sur beach. Low tide. Shearwaters. Quite a number offshore. All seemed to be moving south- ward. Sterna macura. One on Little Sur beach. Larus occidentalis. As usual. Not a single shore bird on Little Sur Beach or on beach above Point Sur. Arenaria melanoccephala. One on rock covered with seaweed 1/4 mile north of Little Sur. In a rocky bight just south of the small promontory at the south end of the beach of Little Sur I saw a flock of perhaps a dozen which were quite wary. Very often when these birds will be standing in a dejected attitude doing nothing. Irrugoides macularius. Two or three. Heteractitis micans. Three or four. Two on seaward side of rock at mouth of Little Sur. Were in big care and flew about wildly passing in and out of a small natural arch. Not a single Arigalitio nivosa where there have been many at certain other times.