Apr.12. Left Berkeley about 9:20 and drove to Gilroy for lunch. Then drove on to Monterey and Carmel and via the 17 mile Drive to Ailomar where we spent the night. The weather was cool. Flowers were wonderful, especially on the Monterey Peninsula where the ground was carpeted in places with yellow violets, baby blue eyes, poppies, lupin (low), buttercups, mustard, cream cups, tidy-lips etc. Eu bushy tulipoides ceanothus (blue) was in bloom. The usual yellow-billed magpies were seen near Salinas. The wind was cold on the shore but there was no fog and the views were very wonderful. Ailomar was very quiet with few people but was very comfortable. Apr.13. I went out on the beach before 6 a.m. It was low tide and several companies of shore birds were feeding - among them Western and Least Sandpipers, Black-bellied Plover, 1 Red-backed Sandpiper which proved very rapidly, moving about very little. Flocks of gulls were resting on the sand at the southern end of the Cove. As I reached them I began to notice small birds on the rocks which proved to be Black Turnstones and Surf Birds. They remained for some time and could be seen quite distinctly as the sun was behind me and I had my binoculars. When they finally flew I counted twenty birds - over half were I think Turnstones. As I returned to the hotel for break- fast three dogs came romping out to the beach and spent their time running after the birds. After breakfast I had a few minutes in the woods where I noticed Crows, Brewer Blackbirds, Linnet's [illegible], Western flycatcher (first this year), Black phoebe, piedated warbler, flicker, Harris (?) woodpecker, and Pygmy nutatches. Near the shore there were Nuttall Sparrows and I also heard Spotted Towhees and a Thrasher. We stopped at Bird Rock on our way back to Carmel and found the Cormorants nests very thick. There.