Sept. 24. Heard Cager at Boulder Creek. Crossed Dumbarton Bridge - Thousands of phalaropes. Tide very high. Least Sandpipers numerous. 13 White Pelicans, Several Black-crown Night Herons and 1st Blue Heron- Not more than 6 gulls; 2nd Caspian Tern (?) No ducks or grebes. Sept. 27. Intermediate Sparrows in North Berkeley. Sparrow reported at end of Arlington Ave - [illegible] Sparrow (Emancipation? ) Sept. 29. Rosel-backed Thrush under my window. Oct..3. Golden-crowned and Fox Sparrows singing at 9 a.m. Hears one Quetzalus up Canyon above swimming pool. Saw Mockingbird. Saw a group of Townsend Warblers. [Hot] Oct.6. Saw Pileated Warblers. Mrs. Learns reported Red-tailed Hawk two weeks ago. Four only Fox Sparrow, a few Golden-cr- & Put. Sparrows. Several Nuttall Vires. Cooper and Sharp-sh. Hawk- Droll kept up continuous quet quet while hawk near weather changes at noon - Fog- Oct.7. Foggy in Berkeley. Drove into sunshine at Saratoga. Perfect at Boulder but Sparrows generally distributed. Heard no golden-cr. & Put. Sp. at 11. Oct.8. Returned from sunshine - To fog in Berkeley. Mockingbird singing at Calty Nursery in Niles Oct.9. HouseWren, Varied Thrushes, Townsend Warblers in Strawberry Camp. Oct. 10. Orinda - Huge flocks of Gambell Sparrows - Some Golden-crowns A variable looks like Lutescent. Watched California Woodpeckers stormy coms. St. b. Nuttall at Oak Springs Oct. 13. Saw Water Bridge. Fog and sun. No mist. Saw 2 Eared Grebes, 6-8 Ring-billed Gulls, 25 White Pelicans (at Dunn), 4 Am. Egrets (at 2 min.), Pintails (?), 1000's godwits, 1000's willets. Bb. Flute (100s) 3 Semipalm Pt.; 300t Rest. Sandp., Merlin + Least, 2 N.Phal., 1 Cod. 3st Arreets, 1 Clap. Rail, many U.T. Blue Herons &-10 Black-cr. M. Herons (at Dunn) many Pipits (at Dunn) Oct.15. Nereus Thrush and R-C. Kinglet at Boulder Creek - Warm. Oct. 16. Hot in Berkeley. Oct. 17 Hot w. east wind. Oct. 18. Saw Water Bridge Same species as Oct. 13 plus Tern, Peregrine Hawk, a few Bon. Gulls. The peregrine hawk was worrying a small flock (10-12) of small white birds which I could not identify - possibly Least Terns-flying close together. Saw no phalaropes or grebes or rails. No pelicans or egrets at San Mateo. Thousands of godwits and willets collected on a mud bar a mile from the bridge until late lunch, then swooped over our heads as we sat near their feeding place. Hot.