Cogswell 1948 Journal 35 Dec. 25 - Recreation Glen Club to Ballona Creek from 1 mi'. inland to mouth, Venice and Playa del Rey, L.A. Co. Calif. - From about 9:00 to 11:15 A.M. I surveyed the areas here which I expect to cover on the Los Angeles Christmas Bird Count day after tomorrow. Weather clear & cold. The large mud. flat, where the shorebirds & gulls were always in greatest abundance up to a year or so ago at least, has been diked so that tide does not enter it. The slight % of [illegible] it that was covered with recent rain water apparently offered no attraction. The "marsh" here is being rapidly abolished by draining, diking, & mosquito control operations year after year. However several good "northern" birds were on the nearby lagoons: Holboells Grebe - 1 (see species acct.) Horned Grebe - 5t Golden-eye - 34 (see species acct.). Bufflehead - 74 and contrastingly there were also 2 Black- necked Stilts at the lagoon by the N. entrance to Ohio Oil Co. - the same area where two wintered in previous years.