Field Notes Doug Bell July 17, 1988 signs, I was going with traffic. Suddenly a cop car coming towards us put on its lights, made a U-turn behind us, then pulled us over. 82 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. $75.00. No explanation. The bastards. after that we drove down to nearly Nanaimo, had a cotton breakfast. I thought we could try collecting at Nanose Bay. We asked at the military base, but it being Sunday, no one could give us permission to shoot. Drove out to Schooner Bay, on the point of Nanose Bay. A fair number of offshore rocks. Rented a skiff + 20 hp Mariner motor. Drove the boat first to the guano-covered rocks - Ada Rocks - about 1/4 mile off the point, to the SE. Gulls nesting here, probably 50 nests / half-grown chicks. About 20 resting D-C Cormorants. Lots of Marbled Murrelets. Too many boats around though. Shot at one gull, only wounded it. Went north to a slightly less populated group of rocks. No red nesting activity, but shot 5 gulls (DAB 404-408). These were at the Yeo Rocks - a grassy-island group. Amazing - most of these gulls had starfish remains in their stomachs. I then went back to the harbor, picked up Marian, and we went back out to Ada Rocks. Saw 2 ad. Bald Eagles. That afternoon we drove north. Stopped at a forest drive north near Crystal River, did up the gulls. Heard several Common Nighthawks, saw Band-tailed pigeon eating huckleberries. We ate