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FIELD NOTES
Doug Bell
DATE: JUNE 5, 1985
LOCATION: East Sand Island, mouth of Columbia
River (Baker Bay, WA) Oregon.
Other birds observed:
Cormorants (Pelagic?), Greater Scaup (large rafts), Mallard
(pairs), Canadian Geese (6), Bald Eagle - ad., seen sitting
on piling in Baker Bay, drying it's wings cormorant style.
Watched it sit for about 6 min., it then lumbered off-
only to be dive-bombed by 2 Caspian Terns. Bonaparti's
Gull (flock of 25) seen upriver. Song Sparrows (few) on
island - in pines. Barn Swallow nest w/eggs in small cement
"pill box". Carrion Crow - pair with fledglings (simple) in
pines. Adults cawed me constantly.
Les picked me up from island at 15:00. Picked up
at east shore - went well, with using skiff & hip-boots.
Tide near high.
16:00 -> onwards
Preparing the 2 birds I caught, brought them with off
the island live.
Spent night at City Center Motel, Ilwaco. Raining
hard. [illegible]