Field notes, v4393
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gulls and Pelicans (Brown). Cormorants were still carrying sea weed. After lunch we drove to Pt. Lobos (high tide) and then on the 17 mile drive to Bird Rock which was also covered with cormorants and a few Brown Pelicans. Turnstones (Black) came onto the rocks on the shore. Several Sea Lions (15) were on the Seal rocks and one on the beach. On Saturday the way home I located what I thought was the tree Mr. Williams had told me held a White-tailed Kite's nest but did not succeed in seeing the Kite. On Saturday morning I went out on the shore at 6 a. m. to try again to find an Oyster Catcher but did not succeed. As I returned to the cottage I heard a loud Phoebe which may have been its call but it was too late to go back as I had to meet Jamie in San Jose at noon: Returned to Berkeley via Watsonville, Hecker Pass, San Jose, Colo Altos, Skyline Blvd., Spring Valley Lakes to San Francisco and Golden Gate ferry to Berkeley. Apr. 24-27 list of birds seen: - Eared (?) Grebe (1), Moss Landing; Calif. Brown Pelicans (50-100) Carmel & Bird Rock; Farallone and Baird Cormorants, Bluebills, Moss Landing (a few), Calif Dunit, Carmel (flock), Coots (Moss Landing. Black-billed Grever - large flocks, flying along shore - Moss Landing; Black Turnstones (a few) near Bird Rock; Yellow Legs (20+) Moss Landing, Red-backed Sandpiper (a few) Moss Landing, Long-tailed Dornicher -(20+) Moss Landing, 1st Blue Neron, Myros Landing. Western (and least?) Sandpiper (large flocks) Moss Landing, W. Gulls, Bonaparte Gulls (many, some im. plumage) Moss Landing, Pigeon Greel- leerots (2) Carmel, Mourning Dove, Anna and Allen Humming-birds. Harris (?) Woodpecker, Carmel, Flicker, Calif Woodpecker. Blue-sided Flycatcher Boulder Creek, W-Flycatcher, Black Phoebe, Horned Lark. Cliff Swallows, Carmel Mission etc (building nests), Steller Jay Boulder, Calif. Jay Carmel, W-Crow Carmel, S.C Chickadee, Bushtit, Calif Creeper Wrentit, Calif Thrasher (Carmel, W. Bluebird Bayaro Valley, Shrike,