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Field Notes
Doug Bell
June 26, 1984
female of pair 22. Only dug her. She flew off to a
reef. I fired w/16 G shell, whereupon she flew off to
the mats & climbed up on a rock. I approached, shot
again w/16 G. shell. Killed her. Waves washed her off
the rock & she finally drifted in to shore (DAB 524).
Spent rest of a windy but clear afternoon preparing
the five gulls. During the course of the afternoon
a different Bald Eagle flew by - this was a bird w/a
white head and tail, but the tail had a faint, sub-
terminal band of brown. This bird showed up at 3
different times over the course of the afternoon, and
on the fourth time towards 20:00 it began soaring
off to the east. The sky at this point was beautiful
because broken clouds had moved in, and they reflected reddish
lines mixed with blue patches of sky. Towards 20:00, after
I had finished dinner and was sitting by the camp
stove, I heard a commotion and just saw a Peregrine streak
by at ground height not more than 20 ft away. Barn
swallows were "chasing" it. The falcon zipped through
a gap in the shrubs and out over the W bluff above
my beach. I went to the bluff to search for it, but
didn't see it. About 1/2 hour later, as I was coming back
from the bluff, it streaked past me again, going in the
opposite direction (W -> E) low over the island. Definite
ad. male. About 10 min. later I saw it flapping high
above the west shore of the island, headed for the SW
end. It began a partial soar in the wind, coursing