FIELD NOTES Doug BELL June 12, 1986 need a boat though. No other way - shooting from beaches is out. An north jetty is also State Park property. Near lighthouse. Bare up with Bender - drove north to Coos Bay Checked with State Police - called County People in Coquille - no use of firearms in dumps. Can see lots of gulls in & among the pulp mills of Coos Bay & North Bend. We drove over to Charleston, ORE at mouth of Coos Bay. Talked to -Debbie Hansen (888-5515) - ORE F&W, then with the Oregon Inst. of Marine Biology. They gave me a number for DAN VAROUEJAN, who w/f: Marge works both at the institute and does alot of seabird (Murre, Petrel, and lately, Peregrine) research. Called him up at his house 756-6955. Had a very nice chat. Talked about his work here - he's done lots of large seabird survey work. He thinks his been seeing more hybrid gulls lately. Also more Peals' Peregrines in winter on the jetties & sand dunes. He invited me out with him, but he's not going until next Mon or Tues. He also said that the last good gull nesting is Coos Bay, then nothing until Sea Lion Caves. By the way, ORE F&W fowl people are: Bill Heins, Pete Perrin. Since no luck with govt. boats, I asked fishers. Wally Lewis (looks like Paul Newman) of the 'Sunbeam' agreed to take me out on Coos Bay to shoot gulls for $40.00. From 17:30 - 18:00 we went out, straight to large feeding congregation of guillemots, gulls & pelicans. Churned w/ 2 slices of bread - then started shooting. I shot five birds with five shots - all adult Western Gulls.