FIELD NOTES Doug Bell 6/4/86 LOCATION: Sugarloaf Rock, Humboldt Co., CA. WEATHER: Clear, but cloudy. Towards evening - fog, drizzle. TIME: 17:00 -> to dark Drove over [illegible] Ferndale to Sugar loaf rock. Asked Mr. Joe Russ for permission to camp. Set up camp, about 1/4 mile south of Sugarloaf rock, just north of a freshwater creek that flows into the sea. Lots of gulls come here to bath & drink. Shot 2 birds (L. occidentalis - 072, 073) with 2 shots - the 16 guage works better than the 410 for gulls! From a distance, sugarloaf has double-crested cormorants, gulls. Saw a flock of ca. 12 brown pelicans go patrolling by. 2 single terns - hunting alone - also went past (red bill, black cap, large, light wings, little fork - (aspian Tern)). Other birds - cliff swallows and barn swallows at Bridge's ranch house. White- rowned sparrows singing everywhere. Song sparrow. Killdeer at creek mouth. Turkey vultures, red-tails. June 5 1986 9:00 AM - 13:00 Weather - warm, high fog. Shooting gulls at creek outflow on beach just south of Sugarloaf rock, Humboldt Co., Calif. Shot a total of 5 gulls, hit each one with a single shot, but needed to finish off 2 birds still in water when they crash landed so they would not go out through the surf. DAB 074-078 acquired today. Drove back over Ferndale to Weott (Johns Dusty Knight)