FIELD NOTES Doug BELL DATE: MAY 21, 1987 Forgot to mention - while trying to trap this morning at Van Damme I saw a pair of ospreys circling about the cove. Quite vocal - whistling to one-another. At some point one of the birds caught a fish and then headed straight away for the ridge to the northeast of the cove. Anyway - after Van Damme I headed south on Highway 1. There really doesn't seem to be any good place for gulls at least between just south of Little River and Elk, Calif. There are scattered birds, but either access is private or it's too steep (>1000') to the beaches. Even then - few gulls. Allison is OK - saw a few gulls at that harbor - and towards late afternoon I even saw some nesting birds and a number of terns at the spit of the Navarro River - also saw 3 ospreys there, one sitting on a wire - I could see it from above (the road looked down on the river) eating a fish. The osprey had nifty yellow eyes, chocolate eye stripe, white rump. A double-crested cormorant landed next to it on the wire and squawked weird. Went down to a private beach about 2.5 mi. So. of Elk - real neat - but only one pr. gulls on an offshore rock. A friend of the landowner met me at the car - not happy with my trespassing. At Allison Cove saw couple pelagic cormorants diving inland in the river water - they almost looked like cotingas! Went back to Van Damme - two wrong people- so I went up to the peninsula just so of Mendocino - shot 2 gulls - appeared to be a pair [DAB #27, #28]. There