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Field Notes
D.A. Bell
May 25, 1990
the gulls, Maren went fishing with Bob Paine, Tim Weston,
Betty & Wayne Sousa. Caught rockfish.
Forget to mention - a Peregrine was seen around 11:00 am
on 24 May; also some Cassin's Auklet carcasses on
the beach - clearly Peregrine work. Did Petrel trapping
23:30 - 13:15. In addition to Leach's Fork-tail, caught 5 Cassin's
Auklets!
May 26, 1990
Good rain off a on all day. Went to blind #1
2 birds/shot and collected another pair of gulls on 1 shot (DAB 707-708).
Spent much of a wet afternoon preparing all six gulls
from yesterday & today. In mid-afternoon, Luke
Larkwork, saw ad. Bald Eagle come by a grab a
murre on the colony. It caught it on the bluff of
the colony and proceeded to tear into it right on the
spot, until our watching scared it off.
They lit the wood stove in the house today - good,
because it was pretty cold and wet all day. Towards evening
went fishing around N. Island. We caught Rock Fish &
[illegible] Ling Cod. N. Island has quite another
whole two groups of Common Murres. Near
perspective of the island, also Pelagic Cormorant nests,
rather close to our activity, but the nests did not
yet have eggs. As for the Murres - it looks like
about an additional 500 are on the N. island
& associated reefs. Just before dark I heard the
kek-kek-kek call of an agitated Peregrine from somewhere
off the NE end of Tatoosh I. Also, at least