Field Notes Doug Bell town, also Song Sparrows. Spent night at THE PLACE motel ca. 7 mi out of town (only 40.00/night versus 70.00 in town). August 10, 1989 Flew in a Piper 2 engined plane (like at 310) to Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska at noon. Beautiful flight over mountains and glaciers of the Kenai peninsula. Quite cloudy, but did get a good view of the forested islands and coast of SE shore of Kenai Peninsula. Pretty foggy rest of the way out to Middleton I. As we approached the island, it was surprised to see it was quite flat + marshy. It's surrounded by extensive reefs, and a flat marsh. Log surrounds most of the island, the center of which is an uplifted flat table, gently sloping from NE -> SW , with the steepest sandy cliffs in the SW side. We landed under a low fog celling. Saw gulls around, but not a whole lot of birds. Met Sara Lenoe and Brian Fadely from Fish & Wildlife Service. It turned out, Brian was madly collecting gulls for me, because they were scheduled to leave the island this afternoon. Brian shot 18 gulls for me this morning (DAB 628-645). We drove in 4x4's to the barracks at SW end of island, packed everything up, and went back to the airstrip to wait for our flight out. I shot 2 more gulls (DAB 646-647), then 2/3