Field notes, v635
Page 279
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Field Notes Doug Bell June 19, 1986 Bend, Tokeland (a weird town - just mobile homes) and Sea-Grayland. We set up camp at Grayland State Park, Grayland, WA. Good place - grassy, lots of brush & short (< 8'), scattered pines. White-crowned Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Bewick's Wren, Black-capped Chickadee Familles (!), Red-winged Blackbird, Brown headed Cowbirds, Downy Woodpeckers, Pheasants (head crowing), Swainson's Thrush. At a Freshwater pond we found 2 imm. (2 yz?) Glaucous-winged Gulls - one dead, other dying. We drove to Westport, on the So spit of Gray's Harbor. Weather calm, broken cloudy fronts. Towards sunset I watched a light primaried gull w/ pink eye ring + dark eye rings new with a dark-primaried gull w/ yellowish eyerings + light eyerings. June 20, 1986 Rain at 05:00, up at 06:00. Packed up camp, drove to Westport, on Gray's Harbor. At a large trailer full of fish remains there were about 100 gulls greedily feeding. Most seem to be of Western Persasion. But even those vary in their insides from light straw yellow, to greyish (uniform pigment over straw yellow) to dark. Eyerings vary from yellow to flesh to pinkish. While watching the gulls one was apparently hit by a car and sus- tained head injuries. I collected it immediately (DAB 103).