Sept. 28. Went to San Mateo Bridge at turn of tide at 1 p.m. A small island just north of the east end of the bridge was the rendezvous of numerous Black-bellied Plover and Western Sandpipers waiting for the water to recede. At the point of the island a Black Turnstone stood in the edge of the water. As soon as the water began to recede all the birds seemed intent on bathing in the little puddles. South of the bridge a long line of land was rapidly covered on the outer edge by flocks of Willets which came flying in from the south. On a sandspit east of the east end of the bridge Godwits were congregated so thickly that it looked like a rocky reef until the birds flew. Sandpipers were very abundant seeming to prefer the north side while Willets and godwits kept to the latter south. Later they scattered over the mud as it was exposed on both sides of the bridge. A few Greater Yellowlegs were seen. A number of birds smaller than Black-bellied Plover, larger than Sandpipers, with short bills (1 in +), gray except for white in the tail may have been knots. One bird with long legs like a Yellow Legs but much shorter bill and a very large black eye, a white line above the eye, distinctly streaked on back, white rump and perhaps tail white, belly white, chest buffy I could not identify. It was larger than a B-b. Plover, smaller than Yellowlegs. 5 Black Turnstones were seen, two Western Grebes, three ducks (sp?). The plaintive call