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Field Notes
Doug Bell
June 25, 1989
However, the female was soon off it, whereupon the M came over and started hocking at it. I climbed out of the blind to rescue the bloodied chick and put it back in its original nest (20-a WA pair).
Found a larger chick, what I thought to be one of the original 2, and put it in 36's nest. Left the Beach area 20:15. Weather has turned to heavy mist.
About 65 crows have accumulated in a local tree to roost. I went to the bluff near the joghorn from 21:20 - 22:00 and watched the Rhinoceros Auklets come thumping into their burrows. Some came rather close. Caught one Rhino Auklet when it landed next to a fence. Beautiful bird. Heard a couple Leach's Storm Petrels around 23:00.
June 26, 1989
Forgot to mention. On first day here I saw and photographed an apparent male, ad. Sea Otter sleeping in the calm water, between reef shoals. 08:10 - The Sub-ad. Bald curies past west end of island.
09:30 - An third tape recording gulls. 11:00 - Sub ad. Bald eagle flew by, tried to land on a rock but was hit by a gull. Chased away. 11:20 - Collected 3/1 3 gulls on one shot Pair 21 (DAB 520 + 521, both GW/H) and smoke of Pair 22 (DAB 522, WC).
Then made mistake of trying to collect a pair with the 4/1 410 aux - only got one of them (DAB 523). Then made another mistake when I used 410 aux to get the