Field notes, v639
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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