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Field Notes
August 2, 1984
Had a great dinner of salmon and fresh vegies with salad.
August 3, 1989
We planned to reach Cape St. James. Dave, John (from Rose Hill) and I left in the boat from Rose Hill heading down the east side of Knight Island. It was clear & windy, but the station at the Cape reported 0.8 mi visibility. We passed to the lee of High I., then to the outside of Rairy Islands, where a substantial number of GW Gulls were in residence (ca 50). At the peninsula between Rairy Is. & Gull Inlet, I saw an ad. Peregrine stooping on something in the water. I shouted, so we dashed over. As we approached 2 young of the year launched off some trees, and one was chasing & dived at the ad. falcon bird (a tiercel), the other flew almost bestial- like off over the rocks of the peninsula. The ad. gave up stooping, circled back and landed in a snag on the trees rocks above us. Beautiful dark, thin tiercel. It stood very straight. We dropped John off at the rocks below for him to pick some goose-neck barnacles. The tiercel ad. flew over to another snag, and soon thereafter an imm. falcon headed over our heads. This point doesn't have any substantial cliffs on it, although there is a steeper cliff about ½ mi. S. We continued on our way, but the fog was getting thicker. Nice gull rock at Lyman Point (Lyman Point Inlet), with nesting GW's, Tufted Puffins also Pelagic Cormorants resting. Passing Ludama Bay