37 Towhees, Song Sparrows, Titmouses and Wrentit and Hermit Thrush from window. Walked up to plantings of lemon and madrone where Hermit Thrushes, robins and Varied Thrushes were abundant. Clear, cold. Dec. 5. Went to S.F. Many Glaucous-winged gulls & Calif. gulls - very few Western. A few White-winged Sooters and one Western Grebe. Heavy frost across canyon. Dec. 6. Three titmouses came to table for sunflower seeds. Dec. 10 Rain. Dec. 10 Great flocks of robins eating the madrone berries at Boulder Creek. Rain. Dec. 11. Went to Lake Merritt. Thousands of ducks including baldpates, 1 European Widgeon, a few Spoonbills and Wailards, hundreds of Canvas Backs, some Redheads and Bluebills, several (American) Goldeneyes, 5 or six Canada Geese, 1 Cackling Goose, 8-10 Snow Geese, 1 Ross Goose. several White fronted geese. Eared and Pied-billed Grebes. Large flock of Cormorants. Many Barnacale Gulls. numerous. Cold, rainy, snow on Diablo. Dec. 12. Clear, cold. Went to San Francisco in late afternoon. Many Glaucous-winged Gulls. Saw very few adult Western G Dec. 13. Rain, S.W. wind, Cold. Dec. 14. Cold, clearing. East wind right off snow on Mt. Diablo. Faculty group watches birds from window. Dec. 18. Went to Lake Merritt with the Advanced Class. European Widgeon is banded. A pair of Green-winged Teal near the shore. The male spent all this time picking at other ducks as he guarded his mate. One Buffle-head was added to last weeks list and Redheads & Bluebills seemed more numerous. All the lemon bushes were stripped of berries; a few rose [illegible] on ground.