Bird Island, Salt Lake, Utah about the size of a large Plymouth Rock hen, to judge of these fat young able to waddle away from the nests. He counted 14 3/8 occupied pelican nests (ie. with either eggs or young or both). The nesting has evidently not yet reached its peak (as for numbers). A few small piles of small fish were strewn about - no trout seen among them, mostly "skiners" or other noncommercial fish. Madson says the pelicans fly about 75 miles each day to feed. They go south to Utah Lakes at evening and return in late morning & the first day. 9 California Gulls were nesting over the entire 9 acres of the island. He estimated between 15,000 - 20,000 gulls present. If nests were found 1/2 to each 4 square yards (which seemed not about right) there were near 10,000 nests on the island. Eggs ranged between 3 and 2 per nest, with a few clutches of 4, and many nests with 1 egg. I saw 1 gull just hatched. It did not seem many pelican eggs which looked as though gulls had broken them. Curiously the gulls nests were interspersal throughout