Field notes, v636
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FIELD NOTES Doug BELL June 9-cont. pelicans & imm. gulls wandered past to shore below split rock. June 10, 1987. Up late (7:00 a.m.). Bad allergy attack from all the pollen on grasses. Never seen it so bad - grass hairs "smoking" with pollen. Packed up tent - headed north on 101. Good view at False Klamath Cove. Largest concentration of gulls yet. Trinidad & Crescent City for some. Even looks like a potential collecting ground if we gets out in the beach early a late enough. NPS foot path around cape - but best approach would be from beaches just north of the rocks. Footsteps Rock just north of False Klamath cove is a huge rock - peregrine potential! In Crescent City I tried to contact the Game Warden (Don Gustinaque) and Dept. Public Works (Mr. Brown) to get permission to shoot at the dump. No luck with the Game Warden. The dump is being run by Klamath Disposal Services. Spent the afternoon on the Bluffs of Crescent City; the weather cleared, sunny and windy. About 20 gulls nesting on a close off-shore rock. Tried recording gulls first at the Bay where a creek empties into it. Saw one Glaucous-winged Gull out of about 60 Western. Several Pelicans & a couple Bonaparte's gulls, Caspian Terns & Then tried recording at the harbor with limited success. Saw Kingfishers + Red-throated loon. Finally tried at the creek outlet at the ocean beach just north of the city's bluffs. No real luck.