Field notes, v504
Page 330
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Bied Arvey Journal 1966 June 19 Sunday June 19 - Farallon Island light house. I am observing the colony on the East Side of South Farallon from North Landing to Shubrick pt. [illegible] The day started [illegible] after a night of 30+ knot winds at 12:55 AM - sky is clear, can see Tamalpais, but wind still about 25 knots. T° about 60°F. In the Tower colony of Brandts Cormorants I can estimate the number pairs by assuming the area of nesting is roughly rectangular and counting the number of nests in the width and in the length by multiplication. I estimate 80x30 and 10x20 which equals about 2600 nests just on the town Island colony. Many murres can be seen in the Cormorant colony. Don't know what business they have here. Some seem localized around some of the more jumbled boulders and are probably incubating eggs here. Have not been able to spot any large fishing flocks near the island today - yesterday at about 4 PM saw one about 1/2 mile SE of the East landing.