FIELD NOTES. Doug Bell June 19, 1986 excited. The male honker then returned to the ?, and they did a neck-stretch display for at least a minute. Bathing was the next thing they did. We drove on to the Walla Walla Bay Natl. Wildlife Refuge office. There at the office, on their pond, were 2 pair of Canada Geese, with 5 & 8 young (3 & 6 weeks old) respectively. Also about 7 other adults on the pond. Refuge Manager is Jim Hidy (no longer Ulrich Wilson). Talked to the sec. Jane Dunlop. We had to wait 2 hrs for Hidy to show up. So we had a late lunch and sat at Walla Walla Bay, just across from Long Island. A cow family of 2 ad. & 1 begging young wandered by. Other cows individually bouncing about. When a cow got too close to the boat hit a ramp of the refuge, about 25-30 barn swallows would sound alarm & chase it away. At 16:00 we finally met Jim Hidy. He let us deposit 3 gulls in his freezer. Identified our mammal skulls from East Sand Island, Columbia River, to be beaver. Also said mink/skat would be much smaller, nutria would have not had such yellow teeth. Also, nutria scat are not as strong & compacted as the beaver scat we saw littering East Sand. He said young beaver often strike out on their own, can inhabit marshes, make deep paths thru marsh & brush (as we witnessed on East Sand). Saw some ring bills gulls on Walla Walla (immature). Also saw a young (jimm) Calif. Gull on Long Beach. We drove on around the Walla Walla Bay, over South