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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.