Field Notes Doug Bell August 3, 1989 Meresby National Park Reserve having dinner with Jim Sue & John, as well as some historic people. I kept quiet until I could introduce myself to Bob Redhead. He is the one who gave me "verbal" permission at my own descretion to collect in the Park. He suggested I remain While taking a hot bath outside at 5:00 I heard Leach's Pet-tailed Storm P'track desolate. So nobody mentioned gulls that evening. Harbor August 4, 1989 again, John, Dave & I headed out east and south to attempt to circumnavigate Knight Island and get to Cape St. James. Beautiful day, clear, sunny and calm. Stopped at Cull Islet to watch the gulls, puffins and Cormorants. Some nearly fledged CW gull chicks on the islet. Probably ca. 40 birds total - Loads of seagulls again. It is really striking, it did not see nearly so much sealbird activity anywhere else on the east coast. The difference is like night and day. The southeast coast, well, the entire southern tip is teeming. Cull Islet in particular appears to have many puffins, and Loxtons Bay had "flocks" of 40-50 puffins moving about. It was so clear we could see the Ferocuard Islands at the Cape. We went past Amnis Point, and it was a straight shot to Cape St. James. The weather remained calm. We arrived around 12:30 at Cape St. James Island, ducking there and boat walking up the 1000 stairs to the meteorological station - As we were going up the stairs I saw a Peregrine soaring on its wind above the island. Also saw what looked like an Orange-crowned Warbler. At the top, we