Field notes, v637
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Field Notes March 7, 1988 mostly Glaucous-winged, wandered past going north. After sunset I drove back to Mono Bay. March 8, 1988 At 8:30 am I was up at the Los Osos Landfill. The boys, Robe Barnhart and Brian Landry, said I could try collecting with their pellet gun. I did, but couldn't "stop" a gull with it. So Brian suggested I hop on the caterpillar tractor with him so we could get real close to the gulls. The gulls were spooking if I was on foot. So we did get close, but I still couldn't drop a gull. So Brian tried - and succeeded. From 9:00 am-1:00 pm he collected 5 Western Gulls for me, all neck shots with the pellet gun (OAB 243-247). After preparing these, I went to town, bought the boys a stripack and delivered it. Then called John Smiley at Big Creek Reserve to ask about collecting. He said to stop by. So I headed north on 101; left Mono Bay about 2:30 pm. Beautiful clear & sunny day. At the rock north of Corda I stopped to look for Peregrines. As I was watching the offshore rock I heard the kek-kek-kek of an irate falcon. An adult, ? peregrine flew over me - full crop-whitish bulge contracting with barred underparts to belly - and flew after a red-tail. The falcon disappeared from sight. I arrived at Big