FIECO NOTES Doug Bell June 11, 1987 Went out to Crescent City Dump (off Old Mill Rd), Del Norte Co., Calif. to shoot gulls. Shot 5 gulls with 9 shots - hit one twice, missed one twice (DAB 160-164). Remained at the dump to prepare them. Shot around 10:30 - 11:30 am. Finished all preps at 16:45. Dump closes at 18:00 (close!). Dropped specimen off at Del Norte Ice Co. The dump has lots of birds; hordes of gulls, crows, ravens, many turkey vultures, barn swallows, tree swallows, gold finches (females). One downy woodpecker. Red-shouldered hawk, screaming red-tailed hawks. Probably saw about 3 Glaucous-winged at the dump (imm. & sub-adults). Between 19:45 and 21:15 I walked out over Pt. Saint George. Beautiful view of Castle Rock. Thousands of sea-birds - all coming & going at once. Countless Common Murres blanket portions of the rock. Cormorants - Pelagics dot the rocks & cliffs; Brandt's occupy patches of flatter areas, and I think Double-Crested can also be seen. There are hundreds of Western Gulls. Off to the south there was a feeding flock ~ frenzy of to a couple hundred gulls, many cormorants & several pelicans (brown). The birds were moving over the water - dunking their heads and slowly moving on to the next spot like one gigantic moving carpet. Over the course of an hour the frenzy moved south about a kilometer. Many birds were feeding in the ocean between Castle Rock and the shore. Banks of Cassin's Auklets, Common Murres, and Rhinoceorus Auklets could be seen. The Rhino auklet had