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Field Notes
D.A. Bell
June 6, 1990
Up at ca. 07:00. Beautiful, clear, calm day. Lots of mosquitoes last night in the cabin though. After breakfast Wayne and I sat on beach, talking (see notes) about Zangara. Oh yes, about 07:30 I heard two short screaming bouts of a peregrine - coming from W of us? As we sat on beach, 20 Harlequin Ducks made their way up the beach to the creek. Often flying back to the water if we made fast movement.
We got ready with the boat, launched it at 11:20.
Wayne pointed out the old eprie site at East Fanny Bay, which is visible from the beach in front of the cabin. Then we motored off to Cox Island in Cloak Bay. Wayne showed me the old eprie cliffs - at Iphigenia, Pinnacles #1, twin pinnacles at #2, Pinnacle #3 & 4 - all on Cloak Bay, then Cox I, and then Burial Caves, and finally Daedon's just E of the fishing lodge. (Cox I was first: W end and N end (old site from Wayne's thesis) and SW face. Nothing in way of falcons - but 8 Polecats [illegible] nests & 3 adults on 3 of them + 126WG's.
Plus Oystercatchers, nesting on hard rocks. After cruising Cox Island we went around to pinnacles 3, then 4, 2 and 1, then Iphigenia (on gutter side of light post), then to burial cave site just W of lodge, and then we headed east past the lodge and Daedon's [illegible] eprie site - long way since climbed just across from Lucy Island) We headed north along coast of Zangara I. Just past the channel between Lucy & Zangara, the coast of
Cox I.
Cloak Bay-
Pinnacles #1, 2, 3, 4
Iphigenia
Point
Burial Caves
Daedon's