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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).