10 days Brooke Island Sept. 28, 1977 Sherm Chickering invited me to try a dove hunt on Brooke Island, where he is a member of a pheasant shooting preserve. We met at Richmond Yacht Harbor and the caretaker (Al) of the preserve took us across the 1/4 mi. or so to the island in a pouring rain - first one of the year and very welcome. I was posted at a known dove game on the west edge of the highland (a low flat area extends westward) and Sherm walked about on the roadways giving shooting and chasing the doves about, some of which came by me. We both had limits in an hour or so, despite the rain. There were certainly a hundred or more doves hanging around the island. The vegetation is mostly coyote bush and other components of hard chaparral - relatively little open grassland. Pheasants were all over the place - most of them newly liberated although they summer 100 or so Al tells me. Lots of shorebirds, gulls, cormorants, and a few ducks flying around - a neat show.