Field notes, v570
Page 27
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Cogswell 1948 2 Journal oct. 10 (cont.) At this stage of eff tide the ideal views of even the smallest "peeps" are obtained by sitting in the car and looking down at them. municipal Fishing Pier, Berkeley, Calif. 10:00 - 11:00 — while son Denis fished from near end of open part of pier (½ way out or so) Bessie and I watched birds that passed. Notes entered in species accounts for: Phalacrocorax auritus melanitta perspicillata We then drove via the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, Daly City and Highway #1 to : "Shelter Cove" just N of San Pedro Point, San Mateo Co., Calif. 12:00 - 12:40 — We parked at end of road on side of cliff which runs on out to the point and watched through increasingly foggy atmosphere over the ocean below. Chief items of interest: Pelecanus occidentalis melanitta perspicillata Larus heermanni which see in species accounts. Princeton (N end of Half-moon Bay), San Mateo Co., Calif. 13:30 - 16:15 — while Denis fished again (+ caught 5 perch) we watched for birds from the southernmost of the 2 piers, and later walked a short distance along the beach to the south. Observations of interest on the same 3 species as last above and also : 1 - Sterna hirundo (or paradisaea ?) → species acct.