R.E. Johnson 1967 Journal 73 Feb. 5. Berkeley Marina, Alameda Co., Calif. (cont.) extending them upright while shaking their heads, shaking the water off. This was repeated over and over with great vigor. Western Gulls were largely idle, but occasionally one would approach a Willet and frighten it off when the willet had in having some difficulty extracting an object from the mud. This appeared to be an attempt at pirating but the wilets appeared to get away with the goods in each case observed. Wilets often pocked their bills into the mud clear up to their foreheads + appeared to be struggling to reach a deeper object or to remove a big one. The Black-bellied Plover appeared to pick objects up from the surface and not to probe at all. Further out from shore was a larger gathering of ducks, again mostly Canvasbacks and a few Scaup. Along one margin was a group (20) of Ruddy Ducks. One Western Grebe floated alone 40 ft. off shore. A group of 20 coots, another of 4 Western Grebes, and a single Loom (sp?) swam in the marina dock area at dusk.