Field Notes Doug Bell April 29, 1988 Departed Berkeley at 15:00 yesterday. Arrived Santa Barbara @ 20:30. Not bad. Travelled with Navy boat out of Port Hueneme at 9:00 am. Arrived on Santa Cruz Island around 10:30. Met Lyndall. Also big group of people from Santa Barbara City College - working in insects. We were driven from Prisoners Harbor up to the bunk houses west of Stanton Ranch. Next birds along the way - Santa Cruz Island Sand Jay - great color - very deep blue. Say two Lark Bunting. Really gorgeous. Much intricate singing. Bewick's Wren sing a diff'rent dialect here. House Finches - feeding young. Barn Swallow on the pier. Mourning Doves - lots! Starlings, Mockingbirds, Kestrels - young legging. Ravens. Red-shafted Flickers. (Almost forgot - saw 2 Lusty Shearwaters on trip over). Song Sparrows around new residence. 15:40 - 20:00 Lyndal drove me out to West End (Corvey Cove & Fraser Point) of Island. Along way we saw several Calif Quail; one peacock at 150' overhead! Absolutely impressive cliffs, gigantic caves, together with washes, reminds me of Arizona, nearly Grand Canyons. Fair number of Meadowlarks, a Herred Larks out at point Fraser Point. Large flocks of Pelicans & gulls feeding. No nests of gulls yet on 'mainland' where Lyndall said - they nest. Not even on offshore rocks yet - although