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Field Notes Doug Bell
June 29, 1988
caye cruise west over the island. I could have
sworn I heard an agitated Peregrine from
somewhere near the crane-house on north end
of the island while I was watching gulls there.
Bob Paine has been collecting Peregrine kills in the
beach here, said that as many as 3 Rhino
unklets a day moto were getting killed by the
falcons up to last week or so. They supposedly
are nesting on Cape Flattery. Bob has always
seen Peregrines here, especially in winter. Winter
birds were mostly the "darker" Peales. These
nesting falcons are "lighter", he says. They
had a very tame, a stupid, sub-adult falcon
which they would get within 5 feet or so to
photograph.
My first impression of the gulls here
is that about 1/2 the GWC have darker-tipped
primaries. There aren't many Westerns here,
and of these, very few look like "good" Western
Gulls (re: 100% pure).
Nesting Birds: Crows, Violet-green Swallows, hole in wall Tree Swallows, Cliff Swallows, Barn Swallows, beautiful dark Fox Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Winter Wren. Possibly American Goldfinches, Rufous Hummingbirds, Swifts (White-throated?). Brown-headed Cowbird.