March 30, 1941 With Bob Bigelow, Eldon Payzant, and Walt Munroe to Agate Beach. Weather: Breeze and overcast. Sun did not shine much. Cool. Birds seen. Varied Thrush 7China Pheasant Violet-Green Swallow Crow Junco Coot or Mudhen Barn Owl Flicker Raven Robin Rusty Song Sparrow Buzzard (7) Brewer Blackbird Meadowlark 6White-wing Scoter 5Harlequin Duck? 4Cormorant 2Glaucus-wing Gull Winter Wren 3Phalarope Black Oystercatchers 8Sea Lion Loon Sparrow Hawk Descriptions: 1.Herring Gull: Head, neck, breast and belly underparts a clean white The bill is orange in color The wings are a steel gray color and secondaries are white, primaries are black. When the wing is folded, black and white specks show at wing tips. When wings are spread they are fringed in white except fore margin and the distal 4" of the wing is blacker than the common s teel gray of the remainder of the wing. Under side of the wing is chiefly white with dark gray and black nearer the distal end of wing. Legs are pinkish red and the feet are webbed. Bills are opened wide when the laughing call is given. 2.What I will call the Glaucous-wing Gull is as large or larger than the Herring Gull. It is a dirty brown-tan-or gray color. The bill is black. Legs too. The color seems to be uniform on the body and lighter on the head. The color is mottled or flecked somewhat. I'll check up. The call was a jeep --- jeep --- jeep - 3.I saw one pair of birds perched with a Herring Gull. They were one-third to one-half the size of the gull. The body was a dark sooty brown black. Uniform throughout as far as I could see. The bill seemed to be #/3" or 4" long. Very thick and was a bright red color. When they flew their wingspread seemed to be one foot to one and a half feet. 4.On a rocky island there were a lot of black birds with long bodies with the feet seemingly set at the posterior end of that body. The neck was long and they always sat straight up except when picking or preening themselves. They seemed to prefer to perch on small projections on a cliff-like slope. These seemed to be all black when set, but when they fly a white-rump patch shows. In coming in for a landing on an island, say 30 feet high, they circle it and come towards it from a height of 4 or 5 feet off the ocean. They then bank upward on the slope of the island and brake with their wings, checking about 2 or 3 feet above the spot where they drop to light. Over please to other side of this sheet.