Field Notes D.A. Bell May 24, 1990 On Tutoosh Island, off Cape Flattery, WA. Up late 08:30 after a night of banding Leach's and Fork-tailed Storm Petrels. Last night I had set the tent up at the West End colony - at the connecting rocks between the main island and Strawberry Island. One is practically right below the Light House & Fog Horn. Gulls are in process of setting up Territories, some nests have been built, and one nest had an egg in it. Rather early still. For tent location 1, rocky habitat, grass tussocks on otherwise bare rocks. One has the impression that most Glaucous-winged Gulls here have darker primary tips. We are still in the nest building & territory delineation stage. Much courtship feeding and copulation going on. I would guess only about half the nests have been started to get built. 13:30 - Watched ad. Bald Eagle cruise the cliff tops of West Tutoosh I. It circled back over the Murre colony several times, most murres had left the upper salmon-lerry colony at his appearance. Hundreds of gulls were in its air. But at about the eagle's 3rd pass in front of the cliff top a murre jumped out from a ledge further down the cliff face. The eagle had a short, straight drop of 50' to grab it, which he did. The big bird then had to labor to rise above the whirling gulls, struggling murre in tow. It looked like the eagle dispatched it