FIELD NOTES Doug Bell cont. June 25, 1986 sandy cliffs. This area between the road and the edge of the cliffs encompasses anywhere from 10-60 meters, and varies in slope from level to about 45 degrees. Through the course of the day I caught one bird off a one-egg nest (DAB 110), egg taken, another gull off a three-egg nest (DAB 111) and finally, a bird off a two-egg nest (DAB 112), two eggs taken. Un- fornately, the nests could not also be trapped. After when we returned from trapping to the trails we could see one of the adult bald eagles sitting in a snag-looking quite conspicuous from a long way off. Towards sunset we went to the cliffs on North side, near the airfield, and watched several Tufted Puffins as they circled about in front of the high sea cliffs (500+?) and their currents as the wind picked up. Puffin would fly past within a few yards of us. They were good soarers as long as the wind kept up. It's funny to see gulls sitting in tall dead trees, but they do that on this side of the island. Here I also saw what looked like a good Western Gull pass past the cliffs. Nigel Ball later told me he has a pair of dark-primary tipped, yellow eye-ring & white gulls nesting near his blind down on the east spit in their study area. At dusk I checked the traps - had caught a perfect 8 blue-wing on a 3 egg clutch - she had uniform dark brown under, pink eye ring, gray primaries- and was in perfect feather. I let her go free. We returned to Nigel Ball, Mark Ops & Tim's House for a dinner