Field notes, v637
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Field Notes Don Bell July 12, 1988 via Duncan, Youbou. The paved road ended at Youbou. From then on only gravel logging roads. The trip from Youbou to Bamfield took about 3 hours. Rained hard the whole way. Roads were sometimes OK, sometimes rough. Gigantic logging trucks. Awful clearcuts. Some dense forests though two. Many riparian stretches of alder, good Coopers Hawk nesting areas. Lots of Robins, Swainson's Thrushes, a few Red- shafted Flickers, decent flocks of Bald Tailed Vipers. We arrived at the lab by 16:30. Checked in, met Alan Burger. He helped arrange space, etc. Jackie Lee -> Tech; Bruce -> boat technician. Saw one ad. Bald Eagle. July 13, 1988 at Bamfield Marine Station, Vancouver Island, B.C. Arranged to take a boat, a Boston Whaler, out to Bacria Rocks, near the NE corner of Barkley Sound. We left at 10:30. Weather had cleared a bit from yesterday. We had to cross two major channels to get to the rocks - a bit rough, choppy. Several groups of Marbled Murrelets on water. Also one Common Murre. At rocks themselves large group of loafing gulls - Ring-billed Gulls, and imm. GWC's. The rocks consist of 2 major groups, one west, 4 light pole, one east. The eastern rock is larger of the two, probably 30 yards x 20 yards and 2 yards high (at high tide). Just rock some