Field Notes Doug Bell April 13, 1988 Left Berkeley, Calif. at 05:38. Drive to Monterey. Arrived at 07:45. Met Chris Harrold at John Hopkins Marine Station at 8:15. We will be going out on the HMS Friendship, a 35' Farallon class boat. George, Pete and Nina are Chris' coworkers. For the greater part of the day we'll be sitting about 200 yds offshore of the Marine Station, where they do their dive censusing. From 10:30 - 16:30 we set offshore of the John Hopkins Marine Station. Lots of birds moving about, especially large numbers of imm. Ring-billed Gulls. Fair number of California Gulls - both imm. & adult. Occasional Brown Pelicans, small flocks of Brandt's Cormorants and individual. Pelagic Cormorants. One winter-plumage yellow-billed Loon, one ? -> spring plumaged Common Loon. All day 4 Eared Grebes were foraging near the boat. Western Gulls, imm. & adult, present over entire area; but more imm. than adult. Some Glaucous- winged Gulls, including adults? Young Sea Otter popped up near the boat. By 16:30 we finished dive work; then headed away from shore, chumming gulls as we went. Mostly Ring-bills & California Gulls followed. I did manage to collect 4 ad. Westerns that came into the boat (4 shots, dropped 4 birds, but needed 2 more shots to stop a wounded bird in the water). We were in to land by ? 17:30. I left for Ventura by 21:30 - had to stop just north of Santa Barbara by 23:00 to rest.