Field Notes Doug Bell May 28, 1988 sunglasses. We figured they must be on Trinidad Head, so we drove back - hiked the head again. Sure enough, found them where she had photographed flowers! The sky was as clearing up - large numbers of Pigeon Guillemots & Common Murres were foraging in the waters off the head. Saw 2 Brown-Headed Cowbirds - I was wondering where they were yesterday. We drove south. Arrived at the Cliffs of Holmes around 17:00. Watched the cliffs from the opposite river bar (Sal River). Saw a Peregrine sitting atop the huge stump-spray at top of ridge, but by the time I set up the scope no sign of the falcon. Heard one or two begging calls, then silence. Nothing for 15 min. Then, just as we were ready to go I saw both falcons (adults) come swooping out of the air first in front of us. Both birds did a 100' vertical twisting drop. As the male threw up, the female snatched an object out of the water (dipped bird, by the male? she flew up to a small sitting-spot about 50' above the river & near the hole out of which water drains drains. She "worked" the prey over for less than a minute, then made a free-line for a spot on the far downstream cliff. She disappeared behind a feathery shrub in a vertical crevasse, the most downstream crevasse of the far cliff. This split runs from top to nearly the bottom of the cliff. The spot where the female disappeared was about 75' of the