Field notes, v580
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Paul De Benedictis 196 ( July 17 Cannon Beach, Oregon to Cape Perpetua, Ore. and drove south to the first large rock which shows from the highway (101). Stopped at the Oswald West monument (Hunnat). Pigeon Guillemots, over (Cobble Bv.) Cormorants, Western Gulls at ocean, or rocks & in water. Over cliff many Violet-Green Swallows flying, one Ringlid. Saw a hummer from the car. Great Blue Heron at Wheeler. Stopped at 3-Arch Rocks wildlife refuge. Thousands of birds, but too far out to see clearly. Noted definitely Western Gulls, Pigeon Guillemots, Pelagic Cormorants, Common Murres (Double-Breasted) Cormorants). Seaweed (10-6) dead, young Common Murres washed up on beach. Common goldfinch and White-Crowned Sparrow in back of beach on grassy, bushy areas. Camp at Pt. Perpetua Rec. Area (U.S. Forest Service.) Saw Brush Rabbit, Steller Jays, Robins, Band-tail Pigeon. Set traps out 4 along creek below camp site & 1 in empty adjacent camp (shunk cabbage). 2 along highway, ten on loop. First 7 traps with 2 springs, 1 not touched, one Peromyscus, next 2, 1 vole, 1 missing. 12 on Aighuws, [illegible], [illegible] (Jays took both.) 1 Peromyscus, 4 missing, 1 spring, of 10 on road. Dawn Jays took one Peromyscus, forever the vole. Saw what I could of the latter - Elvey shot 9 Steller Jays, Robins & Crows - only birds out this PM. Heavy, wet forest here.