FIELD NOTES Doug Bell con't. June 13, 1986 nice fellow. He did the Munch article on gulls @ Yaquna. He also thought Yaquina Head easy to collect at - from land with traps. He suggested the Yaquima Estuary, where there are about 25-30 pairs nesting on every available space. But I need first to contact Don McKenzie of Lewis & Clark College, as he'll be doing an NSF-funded study of the gulls in the estuary. Seems there may be more hybrids there, and they act almost as year-round residents. Range Bayer said that during his study 3 yrs ago, he did not see any "pure" Glaucous-winged Gulls. I looked around the estuary in front of OSU Marine Institute - pairs are nesting on pilings & docks. Most seem to be good Western, but there was one female on a pile-nest with lighter primary tips - and a Glaucous-winged type bird landed on a pile post near this nest. Morn' I drove out to Yaquima Head - it's really interesting out there! Loads of nesting gulls on grassy slopes & cliff edges beyond the Lighthouse. Offshore rocks covered w/ Brandt's & Pelagic Cormorants, Common Murres, Gulls. The gulls are confusing. I saw flying birds that looked like good Glaucous-wing adults - also observed one sitting on grassy tussock - then scope it had pink eye-ring, brown sides, gray primaries. Some Glaucous-winged seemed to be bird in last stage of juvenile molt. Observed/photographed one pair - where male seemed to have faded pink eye-ring, brown sides, gray primaries. Female looked like Western, but she had dark sides. This pair choked together