Field notes, v510
Page 263
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Reble 1934 Bodega Bay, Sonoma Co. California Feb. 11 of the sea cliff. In the surf were a 8 & 9 Surf Scoters. In the quiet waters of the Bay in addition to the Brant we saw Red-breasted Mergansers, Pied-billed Grebe, Western Grebe, Feraline Cormorant, Murres, Surf Scoters and various gulls while on the mud banks at the south east end were flocks of Marbled Godwits, Knots?, Western Willetts (few) many gulls, and several Oystercatchers were seen. Also many Sandpipers. I drove down to Tomales Bay, on the way seeing Hudson Shrikes, Pipits, White- crowned Sparrows, Meadow Larks, Robins, several Ravens and crows, one Great Blue Heron. At Tomales Bay several thousand Brant were scattered about which I presume offshoot of the State Fish and Game Dept. had counted. We kept abreast of one small flock of some 35 birds as they were flying down the bay and by the speedometer ascertained that they were Traveling at a rate of 25 miles per hour and a trifle faster at times. They seemed to follow the contour of the bay shore finally joining a group of several hundred feeding close to shore. From the highway, 100 yards distant were these wild Brant feeding on Old Grass.