Field notes, v639
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Field Notes D.A. Bell 14 June 1990 Up at 06:30. Ravens ate my gull remains from yesterday. Heard Townsend's Warblers + Swainson's Thrush in forest. We were out in the boat by 09:15. Stopped at Lodge to call the charter. Then saw 4 Balds in Hensling Bay. Met Wayne's friend, Mike Pearson, in fishing boat on channel. Rounding McPherson Point we came upon a feeding boil of Herring. Up to 7 different Bald Eagles were coming out + making hunting attempts. They would come in low + try to grab fish several time in a pass thru the boil (up to 8 attempts). Saw several successful grabs, and one eagle pirate another, next maneuvers, so that the one bird dropped its fish and the other caught it, after a short twisting dive of 20 feet. We continued around McPherson Point (heard ad. falun harking at a Bald Eagle as we sat in boat watching the feeding boil). We landed at the inlet where we had spotted falcons yesterday and earlier in the week. This inlet has some nice more-covered gorges, and is just South of the west end of Sea Lion Rocks, on N coast of Kangara, approx equidistant between the McPherson cayic and the Kangara Light Station cayic. We were able to land on rocky beach (small) at outgoing tide at 11:15. Immediately heard a stiriel & chipping, and saw a falcon screaming her hunger mail. We were able to hike up slowly, found feathers + plucking perches/ledges everywhere- gives one a feeling of a large falcon "playpen." Some ledges had good amounts of Murrelett feathers. We