Field notes, v639
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Field Notes Doug Bell June 19, 1989. Fox Sparrows about the thick salmon berry. American Goldfinches feeding in some of the grasses. Some of the gull pairs which I collected last year on the W & S end seem to have vacant territories this year. Plenty of Tufted Puffins. The Common Murre colony on W. end seems larger this year. An sub-ad Bald Eagle flew over the island, creating major panic in the gulls. June 20, 1989 Up at 0600, in blind on beach by 07:00. Can hear Winter Wrens singing in brush below cleft. Checking gull morphotypes. Seems to be quite a few intergrade gulls around - north Glaucus-wing types or similar thereto. Spent nearly entire day in blind. When darkness hit Bob Paine & the guys set up a mist net on Tote Point (S end) for Petrels. I was out on the cliffs near the Lighthouse (W), just enjoying the circling Tufted Puffins, Murres and gulls. Anyway, by about 10:30 we went out to the net and waited. Only 1 petrel (Leach's) in first hour, but then things got hot. Between 24:00 - 01:00 we caught 22 petrels (19 Leach's, 3 Fork-tailed Storm Petrels) + about 6 Cassin's Auklet. The night might not have been so good were it not for the clouds blocking the nearly full moon.