Field Notes Doug Bell July 23, 1989 to take me out tomorrow @ 11:00. Beautiful sunset and evening camped on the east shore of Winter Harbor. I managed to record several Swainson's Thrushes. Belted Kingfishers hunting out on the water. A few Calif. Gulls, Great-Blue Herons, Rufous Hummingbirds about. Chestnut-backed Chickadee families foraging thru the trees. Winter Wrens also around the campground. Beautiful weather. July 24, 1989 Had breakfast at the only restaurant in town. Sawer Wilson's Warbler foraging near the restaurant. Common Loon called several times last night from the water. Met Michael at the fish farm at 11:00. While we were talking the crows foraging on the mud flats jumped up squawking, as did a group of 5 Calif. Gulls. Out of nowhere zoomed an ad. Tufted Puffine. He obviously zipped up the Winter Harbor inlet, heading north, and flew low over the fish pens to chase up whatever was on the mud flats. He zoomed up from a low altitude and made a few shallow stoops at the crows, not in earnest. Then he was gone. So Michael took the visiting lady from Paris, his son, a woman and I in the boat. We went down past Winter Harbor out into Quatsino Sound, towards Gillam Islands. Gillam Islands are a series of rocks, rather large & steep, at SE side of Quatsino Sound. One island is quite