EL Kaldstuen 1954 Journal Nov. 13 Left MUZ in Alden Miller station wagon for day-long ornithological expedition with Dr. Miller, Bob Belander, Goodge, George Lawrence and Dick Russell. San Rafael- Richmond ferry crossing. Weather calm and mild with slight westerly breeze on Bay. Western and California gulls observed at dock and during crossing. Also lesser scaup, double - crested and Brandt's Cormorants. Stopped to view shore birds at ducks San Rafael marsh. Other birds seen pastured land opposite side of road included snowy owls, Jay's goshawk, crows. Ducks mostly for off shore, this being last Saturday of a split duck season. Scaup most evident but some galvez county seal shore birds included: western sand-piper (flocks of hundreds) red - backed " (fewer) least sandpiper (very few) sandwicher marbled godwit, western meadowlark avocet Hudsonian curlew Killdeer, black-bellied plovers. coast American egret, short billed gulls. Continued along county roads NE from San Rafael through San Geronimo to San Taylor State Park area. Stop here in Bishop pine forest where Bob Harris had studied withatchals. Still den