Field Note Doug Bell 25 May 1988 I searched for the gull I had lost yesterday. Found it in the beach - dead, breast meat completely eaten. But the breast was removed through a small hole picked in the skin - seems to suggest a turkey vulture had dinned on it. I collected the gull - DAB 305 - which was the mate of 299. We drove route 1 to 101 (Leggett), then north on 101 to the Ferndale turnoff out of Rio deLl. It took us 3 hours to get to Ferndale from Mendocino, long drive along wavy roads. Weather is sunny, warm, even on the route from Ferndale to Cape Mendocino. We went to Ocean House, saw Jenny who said it would be OK to drive down to the beach just south of Sugarloaf Rock. This we did. I immediately set about gull collecting. Shot 5 gulls in quick succession (DAB 306-310). Maren set up camp. I prepared the gulls. Finished by about 20:00. The ocean got very calm, lots of gulls and even cormorants soaring about Sugarloaf. A few Puffins visible through the scope. Counted 191 gulls from the southeast perspective of the rock. Several bands of Brown Pelicans cruising past the beach - all going north. Maren found a White-crown Sparrow nest - 4 eggs - in bush over small wash/travine, near beach.