Coggswell 1949 Journal 12. Feb. 13. Castro Point, Contra Costa Co., via Ferry to point & Easterly from San Quentin, Marin Co., Calif. on the ferry from about 0800-0815. Weather clear & cool, water moderately rough. Several seals (Phoca richardii?) were seen, Birds were scarce compared to our Dec. 18, 1948 trip here at about the same time of day: Lavia (immer-?) - 1 Uachmophorus occidentalis - 10+ sythyra marila - 5+ oxyura jamaicensis many near N. Shore mergus serrator 3+? 24 squatarola squarula - 1 Sarus glauceosus - many " occidentalis - " californicus - " delawarensis - scarce canus - " ? - also (on Castro Rocks) - about 5 or 6 Bhalerscorax, presumably penicillatus. - Point Reyes vicinity, Marin Co., Calif. about 9:45 A.M., with Robert W. Storer, Seth Bailey, Gordon Gallion, & Bessie & Denis Coggswell, I arrived (in Gallion's car) at the head of Drake's Estero; and we all began a search of the region from there to the Point for the Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) which Gallion had seen here last Tuesday. [See species account for Starling records] and for relationship of cattle ranchers here to possibility of any field work]. The habitat of most of the area along the road is