FIELD NOTES Doug Bell DATE: May 28, 1987 minutes later. After Trinidad we drove south on 101. Drove out Cannibal Road from Loleta, CA to the mouth Culvers-sided Towhee Other Birds at Trinidad Head: of the Eel River. Rough surf there, reminiscent of most Ocean Harbors. Great Egrets, a few Cormorants foraging. [double-crested]. Up to 5 Red-throated Loons were foraging in the river. They already had thin grayish heads! From the Eel River we went back to Loleta, then on thru Fernvale and headed out the road to Petrolia. The ciffs just outside Fernvale (in Sugarloaf Mtn.) resemble the Scotia Bluffs and look like they should have Peregrines. We stopped along the Petrolia Road before it gets into Capitola, at a forested slope. Saw Olive-sided Flycatchers, Buntings, Purple Finches singing profusely, Song Sparrows, Violet Green Swallows. Savannah Sparrows also along the way. When we got to Cape Mendocino we stopped in at the Russ Ranch and asked for permission to camp and shoot. Set up camp at the same spot, in the first yew shelf, about 1/4 mi south of Sugarloaf Rock. It was getting pretty late, but we hiked out to the spot just east of Sugarloaf. Sat and watched the rock - many, many nesting Pelagic & Brandt's Cormorants (blue display pouches), Western Gulls, some double-crested Cormorants (?), Common Murres, Pigeon Guillemots, and 2! Tufted Puffins. We watched the rock for at least an hour. Must birds on eggs. No sign of Peregrines. Hiked up to abandoned Light House. American Goldfinches, Lazuli Buntings, violet-green