Field Notes Doug Bell April 26, 1989 Travelling by NPS boat from Ventura Hbr. to Santa Barbara Island, Santa Barbara Co., Calif. Approx. travel time 3 hours. Arrived at Santa Barbara Island 11:30. Sunny, hot. Randy was boat skipper. Corby is island ranger. Some plant people, Bill & Carla, from UC Santa Barbara along. After unloading all sets of equipment, the boat left. However, I had forgotten 2 white buckets. The boat turned around after having gone out 45 min! and returned with my buckets. Set up camp, then went out to the south-east of the island. About 500 pairs of gulls scattered about the entire slope of Signal Peak. While the rangers & others were removing ice ice plant from large plots, I searched the hillside for gull nests - but found only scrapes + fresh nests, no eggs from which to trap gulls! I tried setting more rings over fresh nests - but they didn't work. In addition to the approximate 500 pair at this end of the island, another 500 were loafing about just up from the cliffs. These increased in number as the day progressed. I hiked up to Signal Peak. On west slopes of island were about 1000 pair of gulls in territory. Also about 75 Brown Pelicans nests just down from west of Signal Peak. Wind became strong in the afternoon. Nice views