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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.