FIELD NOTES Doug Bell. DATE: MAY 20, 1987 LOCATION: Van Damme State Park, Mendocino Co., Calif. West to park beach - good view a "gull nesting rock" to SE. About 56 pair counted [from my angle]. Lots of birds at fresh water creek "Little River". Black Brant hanging around beach - as is an Mallard Duck. Steller's jays, Brewer's Blackbirds, Robins, Horn Swanson's Thrushes, Varied Thrushes, Olive-sided Flycatchers in camp. DATE: MAY 21, 1987 Location: variable, along Mendocino Co., coastline. From 0600 to 0800 I tried trapping gulls on the beach with no success. Tried luring into trap "I" dead. They are just too wary to walk into a trap on the beach. The 3 mallard and the Black-Brant were there again. After trapping attempt I drove up to Fort Bragg to get fish remains. Then headed back to Mendocino. The headlands were very nice. On the immediate offshore islands there were a few gulls nesting - I counted about 24 pair, these use at least on constant colony of double nested cormorants. These were collecting grass from amongst the gulls for nesting. Then went down to the northern- most unit of Van Damme S.B. (on peninsula south of Mendocino Bay. One pair nesting on an offshore rock and a few birds moving past. Then went back to camp. Set up trap on beach with 2 fish carcasses. Lodins - but left trap out to try to condition a few linds, One male gull took a fish from the trap entrance, but that was all. Too many people out and about.