Field Notes Doug Bell SFO Bay Bridge, San Francisco Co., Calif. February 1, 1989 Drove with Matt and Lee across the bay bridge to the Caltrans station in San Francisco. Met the bridge engineer and a couple employees ( Duke - a mean, older, stopping fellow, and Jay Pederson, a younger guy who, of all things, needs African Grey Parrots & Cockatoos at home). Matt & Lee want to place gravel in some of the holes on the bridge which the Peregrines have used for nesting. The bridge people gave us each a set of goggles, [illegible] safety harness, helmet & orange vest. We hopped into the Peregrine Funds pick-up, and followed the two bridge people in their vehicle. As always, one of the lanes on the lower deck had been blocked off for bridge maintenance. We drove out to the first tower on the SF side. Matt & Lee went down below the lower deck to check out the next hole, but couldn't get to it without ropes. So, we went on to the central anchorage of the bridge - the large cement pillars in the middle of its suspension bridge. This is where the falcons attempted unsuccessfully to nest last year, the P.Fund removed broken egg-shell fragments last spring. After which, unbeknownst to everyone, the falcons reverted on the W side of the tower closest to SF, in a hole beneath lower deck. From that spot a young falcon fledged, was picked up by SF fire dept at their boat station below the bridge, given to SF Zoo who gave it to the Peregrine