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Oct 25, 1934 Saw 7 [[underline]] Oyster catchers [[/underline]] on rocks--6 [[underline]] Harlequins 1 Tallen [[/underline]] & lots of [[underline]] Black Turnstones [[/underline]] arrived gold Beach 7 00 PM Oct. 26, 1934 Lv Gold Beach 8 00 AM and saw many [[underline]] coots [[/underline]] at Big Lagoon & Humboldt Bay. arrive Eureka 2 [[underline]] 00 [[/underline]] PM See Poole, Traub, Polain & attend Humbeldt community stock assn meeting. Meet wing etc. Oct. 27, 1934 Lv Eureka at 8 00 AM & travel over the tide flats & lagoons to south. Lots of duck shooters but few ducks. Continued to see [[underline]] Phalaropes [[/underline]] both alive & dead. Some of each far inland left flats about noon & traveled south on Redwood highway. Stopped near Laytonville and saw the biggest buck black tail I've ever seen in the wild also two does arrived at Upper Lake at 7 [[underline]] 00 [[/underline]]PM & had dinner. Skinned three birds & went to bed October 28, 1934 Left Upper Lake & traveled to Williams. Lots of [[underline]] Western Grebes,[[/underline]] few [[underline]] coots [[/underline]] & [[underline]] White Pelicans [[/underline]] & numerous [[underline]] Blue Herons [[/underline]] but no ducks. Still saw a few live [[underline]] Phalaropes [[/underline]] and the last dead one for the day at [[underline]] Arbuckle[[/underline]] in the edge of the Sacto valley. also 5 [[underline]] burrowing owls 2 of which[[/underline]] were [[underline]] skinable.[[/underline]]. arrived in Sacto at noon saw [[underline]] Piper, Poole[[/underline]] & Jacobsen for conferences. Skinned [[underline]] owls [[/underline]] & few other birds collected & returned at mignight. Oct 29, 1934 In Sacramento office. See Poole, Keyes, Piper, Neff. Jacobsen, Trarb Mouser,etc. left at 5 [[underline]] 00 [[/underline]]PM & see Worcester at Berkeley