Field notes, v635
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Field Notes Doug Bell Jun't June 15, 1986 Rockaway, Ore (26:50). We are both not feeling well today. Weather is windy, rainy. After showering we drove north to Nehalem Bay - it's a State Park - doesn't look like the long north spit is suitable for shooting - too many houses on south spit. The town of Manzanita, OR, just north is nice. Nehalem Bay was choppy, only saw 2 os. Westerns on it (18:50), a couple pigeon guillemots. Drove up Nahalem River a ways - very beautiful country. June 16, 1986 We drove out to the south Tillamook Bay Spit. This looks like county area, not State Park. Hunting is even allowed during season. From 12:00 - 14:00 we walked north from parking lot along road to the beginning of a forested dune area, then cut west across the spit to the ocean dunes. The beach was at first very secluded. Good spot to shoot. But my aim was off today - couldn't hit the broadside of a barn - shot 3 gulls using 9 shots (one bird I hit twice before it finally came down). Then nor: DAB 096-098. Weather was clear & sunny, fair wind picking up. It had rained this morning. On our way back to the car, on the bay side of the spit, we found a dead gull (fresh) lying in the mud (099). I collected it. It might