Field notes, v639

Bell, Douglas A.

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D. A. Bell 1989-1990 1989 Journal 1990 Catalogue #679-727 Journal

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D. A. Bell 1989 Journal List of localities California Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska

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Field Notes Douglas A. Bell 1989 U.C. Berkeley campus, Berkeley city, Alameda Co., Calif. January, February, March, April San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco Bay, Alameda & San Francisco Cos., Calif. February, Pine Canyon, W of Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa Co., Calif. 2 April, 16 April Mendocino Co., Humboldt Co., Calif. 8 April, 9 April Preston Ranch, near Moraga city, Contra Costa Co., Calif. 16 April Moss Landing Wildlife Area, Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Co., Calif 13 April Santa Barbara Island, Santa Barbara Co., Calif. 26-27 [illegible] April Red Rock, San Francisco Bay, S.F., Marin, and Contra Costa Counties, California. 4 May Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, S.F. Co., Calif. 5 May Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska 22 May - 20 August.

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Field Notes Doug Bell UC Berkeley Campus Alameda Co., Calif. January 10, 1989 09:45 No peregrine on Campanile. Beginning to wonder if he'll ever show up again. 12:30 "" 17:00 "" January 11, 1989 morning 13:10 Weather intermittent cloudy. Cool. Scattered drizzle but sunny now, stiff breeze. On Telegraph Ave. near Bancroft. Saw dark form with light went disappear behind rooftops, headed south across Telegraph Ave. at building-height level. Carl Cicero saw it too - thought accipiter? Large flock of Brewer's Blackbirds (+200) and all pigeons in area scared up & whirling about above the buildings; nearly ringing. 13:20 - Checking Campanile. Over north side, 300' higher, the tuxedo Peregrine appeared, nearly "waiting-on" over me in the stiff NW breeze. Sunny sky now. The cross-low form clear as day, dark tuxedo Peregrine! He went into two light stoops, riding the wind down, yet staying in one place, he cut his altitude from a point down nearly 300' higher than the Campanile to the level of the Campanile. I was nearly shouting for joy at his appearance. At the close of each stop he flared, caught himself, then began the next stop. He seemed to just eat up altitude in slow motion. Once he was down to the

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Field Notes U.C. Berkeley January 11, 1989 - cont. Campanile level, I could see something small & whitish dangling in his feet. The tiercel landed momentarily on N-face ledge #6, then sprung back into the air and circled around in front of the campanile (N side). He landed after one circle back onto N-face ledge 6, pocketed prey in his feet, looked around. 13:30 - I went to LSB to get the spotting scope. 13:40. On Evans Hall 10 floor west balcony w/ spotting scope. Observing the tiercel Peregrine on N ledge 6. He has prey in his feet, which is definitely a pigeon. He is plucking the back & remnants of one wing of a brown/white/grey pigeon. 13:50 - Tiercel working over a pigeon wing. 13:58 - Tiercel swallowed one pigeon foot (tarsus) whole. Noticed that the pigeon has grey shoulders. 14:00 - The tiercel was interrupted in eating when the bells of the campanile rang the hour. The tiercel stopping picking at the pigeon, just stood there, looking about for roughly a minute (prior to this he had been eating constantly, pausing only every few bites to look over his shoulder. I should note the peregrine almost invariably sat with his back facing out from the campanile, or at some angle to the shelf so that his tail cleared the shelves of the campanile.

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Field Notes Douglas A. Bell U.C. Berkeley January 11, 1989- cont. 14:01 No head on pigeon, upper breast nearly entirely plucked, one wing left with only a few secondaries on it. I believe the peregrine had already eaten a meal off this pigeon, and that he had just carried it to the campanile this afternoon. Especially because the pigeon appeared so small to be small prey in the peregrine's clutch when it was "waiting on" over the tower. Normally pigeons are a lot more noticeable, and appear to "weigh" the peregrine down much more when they are whole/freshly caught. 14:05. Trierl eating intestines 14:20 - End of observation. Peregrine still on ledge 6, N face, eating. 18:40 - Peregrine on W ledge #3 - sitting, foot tucked. 22:00 - No Peregrine on Campanile. January 12, 1989 10:00 - No peregrine January 14, 1989 12:45- 13:15 Peregrine resting on E ledge #3 of Campanile. Went up to 10th floor of Evans to observe. Weather cool, sunny. January 15, 1989 15:00 - Peregrine on NW corner of N ledge 3 of Campanile. Sitting. Weather: foggy morning, cool, sunny afternoon.

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Field Notes U.C. Berkeley January 17, 1989 09:30 No Peregrine on Campanile. 15:45-16:30. Peregrine on W. ledge #2; ran across from N->S along the ledge, actively looking about. I thought he might go off on a hunting sortie so I went up to 10th floor Evans Hall balcony, but the tuxel, who was out of direct view on the W face of the Campanile, ever left the tower. 17:30 - Tuxcel Peregrine still on W face ledge #2. Right foot tucked. January 18, 1989 10:00 - Tuxcel Peregrine on ledge #2, W face of Campanile, sitting w/ left foot tucked. Right now the W & N face of the tower are still in shade from the sun. Weather clear, warm, sunny. 17:30 - Tuxcel P. still on ledge #2, W face. 22:15 - Tuxcel P. still on ledge #2, W face. Head is not tucked under wing. January 19, 1989 13:30 - No Peregrine on Campanile. 17:30 - " January 20, 1989 Inaugural speech of Pres. George Bush-> urging unity of Executive & Congressional Offices! ... 10:30 - Peregrine on NE corner of E face of Campanile, ledge #2. Sitting very straight, erect. 13:45-14:00 Peregrine on NE corner of N face, ledge #2. Sitting very erect.

Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley January 20, 1989 15:45 - 16:38 : Peregrine on N ledge #1. From 15:45 - 16:00 he sat rather erect, with rt. foot tucked, viewing all the goings-on about him. At 16:00 he walked in. Nice views of his breast & face, as he was angled towards me (I was on the 10th floor computer building). Creamy throat. At 16:00 he walked to the NW corner of ledge #1. He seemed to be very observant, looking every which way, following feathers floating up in the sky, doves flying past the Campanile, etc. At times he looked ready to hunt flattening his body, bobbing his head. I kept thinking he would launch off his perch at any moment. 16:00 - 16:15 - Extremely alert, looking about. Warbled his right wings foot twice - very alert. The sun shone through his creamy vent feathers. Warm, hazy day. Beautiful dark palm, light [illegible] near of tarsi highlights by the sun. 16:15-16:38 - He moved farther around to west face of ledge 1. Calmed down, foot (rt) tucked again, less anxious. January 23, 1989 Rain last night; cool, changeable weather today. 10:30. No peregrine. 08:15. John Truchet saw the Peregrine sitting on ledge of NW corner of Campanile.

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Field Notes Douglas A. Bell U.C. Berkeley January 23, 1989 - cont. 13:00 Peregrine sitting on E ledge #2. Erect, foot tucked. Sunny, & cool day. Peregrine is shaded on his ledge. 17:15-17:30. Peregrine sitting on E ledge #2 - erect. Full crop, right foot tucked (viewing from Evans 10th floor W balcony). After sunset. At 17:25 the Tiercel launched off his ledge, flew around behind the Campanile (S side out of view) and flapped up to the W ledge #2. Landed out of view. But I could see him still sitting there from now on the Campanile from the Earth Sci. Building on my way home. 21:45 - No Peregrine on Campanile. January 24, 1989 Sunny, clear, cool. 10:00 Peregrine on ledge #2, N face of Campanile. Erect posture. 13:00 Peregrine on ledge #2, N face. 13:15. Peregrine or flew off of ledge #2, N face, curved around to ledge #2 E face. Both ledges in shade. January 25, 1989 13:10 No peregrine on Campanile. 17:30 " " January 26, 1989 12:00 - Peregrine sitting on W face ledge #2. 12:00-13:00 - Peregrine sitting on W face ledge 2, but

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Field Notes U.C. Berkeley January 26, 1989 - can't on the very NW corner. Bob Jones & I walked from LSB up to Campanile. Could see the falcon's breast just exposed to the sun - the sun shined off it like a beacon. Very creamy in color. Bob & I went up to Evans 10 floor balcony. Watched the falcon. He warbled twice, (stretching wings). Looked about much of the time, but by and large he had a relaxed appearance. At 12:30 he hauled up out of the sun, setting with foot tucked (left foot) on NW corner. 15:00 - Peregrine on N face ledge # 2. 17:30 - No Peregrine on Campanile. January 27, 1989 10:00 Peregrine on N face, ledge # 2. Erect, quiet in appearance. I'm almost beginning to worry about him - he seems much too senile over the past 3 days. 12:00-13:00. Peregrine off on N face ledge # 2. Inactive, sitting on left foot. 15:00. Peregrine on E face ledge #2, NE corner. Surveying surroundings. Facing somewhat N. Foot tucked. May have half a crop. January 28, 1989 14:00 No Peregrine on Campanile January 29, 1989 12:00-13:00 Peregrine sitting on ledge # 4, N face. Windy (~20mph); warm, sunny. The falcon is

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Field Notes Douglas A. Bell U.C. Berkeley January 29, 1989 sitting parallel to the ledge. with nearly hunched up shoulders. Appears to have about a half-crop, or at least a partial crop. Somewhat facing into NE wind. The falcon did not move an inch in over an hour. Although it is looking about. January 30, 1989 2-2221 08:00 Met Jeff Davis at the Campanile. He let me onto the Widow's Walk. The door opens out on the E side of the Campanile. I had seen the peregrine sitting on the NW corner of ledge #2, N face, from down below. I discovered that one needs to lean out slit in order to see ledges 2+3, because the stucco ledge #4 blocks those. I was able to collect peregrin remains from the E + S side, [illegible] disturbing the falcon. I then went to the NE corner of Widow's Walk, leaned out, saw the falcons head, who immediately launched out from his perch. Began screaming a deep hek-hek-hek-hek. The bird, from close up, almost looks big enough to be a female. I took many picture as it circled around in front of the Campanile, to the W & N. It kept coming back up very close, slightly above me, making agitated hek- hek calls. The falcon must have made about 8-10 close passes, sometimes coming in from a

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley January 30, 1989 - wint. wide sweep of the area. He seemed to just out up space - in one instant he was over the Computer Building, the next over me on the campanile. After about 1-2 min. the falcon disappeared. I think next time it would be best to make lots of noise as soon as one opens the door to the widow's walk, so as to alert the falcon to one's presence (perhaps whistle loudly). That way, the bird wont be so alarmed by the first sight of a human. All in all - collected the remains of at least 8 pigeons. Most landed. Least 4 crop. PS-Peregrine had at 12:15. Peregrine on N ledge #1. Erect. 13:15. Peregrine (illegible) on NW ledge #2 - sitting very greet. Gorgeous. 16:45. Peregrine on NW ledge #2. Apparent fresh dead pigeon on ledge #4, N face. Looks rather whole. Maybe the falcon was so pissed at my presence on the widow's walk that he had to vent his anger on a pigeon. This morning the falcon had at least a partial crop - and I did clean up all the pigeons in the campanile, so he must have knocked this one bird down sometime in the afternoon (after 13:15). January 31, 1989 10:00 : Peregrine on ledge #2, N face. No pigeon visible in this ledge. Falcon looks like he has a good crop.

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Field Notes Dory Bell U.C. Berkeley January 31, 1984 10:30 - John Tricket saw, from the 3rd floor Biolibrary window, the peregrine flying east from LS8 to Campanile, carrying a large prey item in its talons. The falcon did not stop at the Campanile, but continued on. 15:00 - Matt Nijon & Lee Aulman from U.C. Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group stopped in at MVZ. I took them up to the Campanile right away - no peregrine. Weather is cold & getting cooler. Scattered clouds. We went back to MVZ - I showed them around. They were delighted to see everything. Lee was particularly interested in the Genders, Matt in the Aplomados. [illegible] Matt was surprised about our Aplomado Falcon series - to see such variation. All the birds the UC group has have a dark creamy Tan/rusty breast, clean, no markings. 17:15 - We went back to the Campanile. No falcon. February 1, 1989 08:45 - Drove to Campanile w/ Matt & Lee. Saw the falcon sitting on the South Side, shelf #2. Quite relaxed, flanked feathers very fluffed out. Matt & Lee have the impression that the [illegible] is large. But they are not certain either. Still, beginning to think it is indeed a female. We watched the bird for about 15 minutes.

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Field Notes Doug Bell SFO Bay Bridge, San Francisco Co., Calif. February 1, 1989 Drove with Matt and Lee across the bay bridge to the Caltrans station in San Francisco. Met the bridge engineer and a couple employees ( Duke - a mean, older, stopping fellow, and Jay Pederson, a younger guy who, of all things, needs African Grey Parrots & Cockatoos at home). Matt & Lee want to place gravel in some of the holes on the bridge which the Peregrines have used for nesting. The bridge people gave us each a set of goggles, [illegible] safety harness, helmet & orange vest. We hopped into the Peregrine Funds pick-up, and followed the two bridge people in their vehicle. As always, one of the lanes on the lower deck had been blocked off for bridge maintenance. We drove out to the first tower on the SF side. Matt & Lee went down below the lower deck to check out the next hole, but couldn't get to it without ropes. So, we went on to the central anchorage of the bridge - the large cement pillars in the middle of its suspension bridge. This is where the falcons attempted unsuccessfully to nest last year, the P.Fund removed broken egg-shell fragments last spring. After which, unbeknownst to everyone, the falcons reverted on the W side of the tower closest to SF, in a hole beneath lower deck. From that spot a young falcon fledged, was picked up by SF fire dept at their boat station below the bridge, given to SF Zoo who gave it to the Peregrine

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Field Notes Doug Bell SF-O Bay Bridge, S.F. Co., Calif. February 1, 1984 - cont. Found: Lee Autman hucked this falcon out successfully on Catalina Island in So. Calif. One further egg was removed from that nest, and it turned out to be one of the cleanest eggs in Calif. Anyway - we stopped at the east side of its anchorage and climbed over the side down to the catwalk that parallels the east side of the anchorage just below the lower deck. It was nearly as scary as I thought it would be. The ladders & catwalks all had excellent hand holds, etc. Matt & Lee moved over to the hole, and saw the falcon come out of it. Suddenly both peregrines were moving around. They screamed at first, then were silent; just cruising back and forth below and alongside the bridge. I went out to the edge of the anchorage and got some good pictures of them as they passed alongside the bridge. The sky was overcast/variable, but clear under the clouds. Beautiful view of SF. The falcons were just gorgeous - they would pass below us under the bridge - blue backs contrasting with the sea-green color of the bay's water. Matt, Lee & Duke were busy putting gravel into the hole. Duke (the mean looking guy) really got into it. The next platform consists of a long, flat steel box formed by top & bottom steel plates which span two cross beams that come into the pillar at this point. There are four large (1'x2') openings to the box; two face out from the pillar

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Field Notes Doug Bell S.F.-O. Bay Bridge, SF Co., Calif. U.C. Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. February 1, 1989 - unit. (in this case, due east) and 2 are at the sides. This arrangement is visible on either side of all towers on the suspension-portion of the Bay Bridge, including the central cement anchorage, where the falcons seem to be located again this year. There were no eggs yet in the box. So they spread a nice layer of gravel throughout. I was surprised at all the beams underneath the bridge. There seemed to be lots of places for the falcons, and more importantly, offspring to sit (if only they can survive that initial jump 'trot going into the clunk'). As we were leaving the nest box both falcons flew up and landed on beams not too far away - just staring at us. Beautiful adult falcons. The male appears to have a thicker, darker cap, Both birds clean, quite white-ish on breast. thick malar stripe. Their dark, penetrating eyes observed us. We left them. The whole operation took less than an hour. By 11:50 we were back in Berkeley, standing at the Campanile. I was just about to go to a seminar when the peregrine flew in from the east and landed on the NE corner of ledge #2. We immediately went up to the 10th floor balcony of Evans Hall - set the scope on 'her.' Got a good look. Alliterated Matt of his thoughts that she might be a sub-adult. Lee thought her tail tips looked fairly worn. I was continually struck by her very uniform chocolate lack box illustrated in a tower (not the cement pillar, but the boxes are all the same whether on tower or pillar)

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 1, 1989 - cont. We had the scope on her not more than 5 minutes when she began “e-chuck” ing. We couldn’t believe it. Scanning the skies we were all excited. The falcon took off & headed off the SE. At about the level of the hills, behind the I-House, a smaller falcon came stooping down out of the clouds. Matt thought he saw a “silver” appearance to it - which may suggest it’s an adult. Next to our Berkeley falcon, it appeared much smaller. All in all, I really think this Berkeley falcon is a ♀ based on 1) size to the other bird - also having just seen the pair on the bridge 2) voice - deep, throaty 3) behavior - “echucking” to the male. The two peregrines continued to circle about one another and make shallow stoops, usually the male would get down her then do a long shallow but fast dive on her, a couple times it looked like she rolled to greet him with her feet. They got really low at someone’s house in the hills behind I-house, then began climbing & wheeling in the clouds in the direction of Claremont, then Piedmont. We lost sight of them after about 4 minutes, they had drifted way south, lost in the clouds at about the level of Oakland. Just fantastic. We were quite jiggled. Is this the start of something. Did the travel entire her to Oakland? Is this the tunnel of a pair that supposedly hung around the

Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 1, 1984 - cont. Oakland AT&T building (Franklin + 15th) for the 1987 season? We drove back to SF to meet the bridge observer at the fire station below the bridge. Talked with him from 15:30 -> on. At 17:00 a Peregrine appeared over the closet tower. Up high, soaring with gulls. It drifted over the Ferry Building, then put in a powered dive at a small bird about 100 feet up over the bay. Missed it, then drifted back over the bridge (100 above the tower!), shallow dive at a gull which had dived on it, then back over downtown Ferry Building, then back to land at the very top of the closet tower. Did not see it fly off again. I left after sunset. Very cold (Alaska air coming in). What a # satisfying day!

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 2, 1989 10:00 am - No Peregrine. Cool. Broken sky, changeable weather. 13:00 - No Peregrine. 15:15 - No Peregrine 17:30 - No Peregrine on Campanile. February 3, 1989 Rain last night: 08:15 - John Trachet saw Peregrine sitting on W ledges of Campanile. 10:00 - I saw Peregrine sitting on SE corner, ledge #2 next, foot tucked, light drizzle. 12:40 - 13:05 Peregrine on E ledge #2, middle. Break in drizzle; few scattered droplets. Peregrine carefully preening herself, around vent region, and rump. 13:05 - Peregrine took off, flew in direct level flight due east. 17:30 - Walking up to Campanile. Just I was up to it the & Peregrine appeared flying out of the part, about 50' above the tower. She began screaming a keck-keck-keck several times, carrying a pigeon. She continued past the tower over me, due west and first sight of her. I don't know why she was so upset. I walked around the tower, didn't see anything wrong. Went up to 10 floor Evans, watched. Saw nothing except for a light in the bell tower. This seemed unusual, so

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 3, 1989 cont. maybe it disturbed her. Stayed up till 18:15, scanning rooftops for the falcon, but couldn't see her. Did possibly the ad. male somehow disturb her? No sign of him though. February 4, 1989 16:00 - No falcon on Campanile. Weather cold, clear. February 6, 1989, Weather clear but very cold. Strong NE wind (15-25 mph gusts) 10:00 - Falcon on Campanile, relaxed, on W ledge #2, in shade. One foot tucked. 12:00 - 13:00 - Falcon still on W ledge #2, relaxed, at times moving to parallel to ledge. Now in sun; windy. 15:00 - Peregrine not on W ledge. 16:00-17:30 - Peregrine on W ledge #2, sitting. Visible in fading rays of sunset. February 7, 1989 Clear, cold, dry. NE wind. 10:00 {No Peregrine on N & W ledges 16:45} 16:15 - No Peregrine on Campanile. February 8, 1989 09:00 - Saw the Peregrine flying north, over our house on 1567 Scenic Ave., in Berkeley (A falcon was in our kitchen, eating, I looked up & saw the falcon flapping hard into the stiff and moving fast with the strong (~15mph) SE wind.

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 8, 1989 - crit. 09:45 - A check of the Campanile revealed no Peregrine. 12:00 - No falcon on W & S. areas of campanile 14:30 - No falcon on Campanile; rain has set in. 17:30 - No falcon on Campanile; rain. February 9, 1989 13:00 - Rain, SE winds-mild. No falcon on Campanile. 17:30 - Clearing skies, beautiful sunset. No Peregrine. February 10, 1989 11:00 - Not as cold as in the past weeks. Hazy, light fog. Sunny. No Peregrine on Campanile. crossed out 16:00 - No Peregrine. February 11, 1989 14:00 - No Peregrine. Weather warm, sunny, hazy. 16:00 - No Peregrine. February 13, 1989 10:00 - No Peregrine 12:00 - " " 17:30 - " " February 14, 1989 10:00 - No Peregrine. 12:00 - " " 15:00 - " " 17:20 - " " February 15, 1989 10:00 - No Peregrine 18:00 - " "

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 16, 1989 16:30 - No Peregrine. Warm day. February 17, 1989 Margarett (Pest Services) called Bob this morning to tell him the Peregrine is back on the Campanile. 11:00: I saw the Peregrine sitting on N ledge #2 as I approached Evans Hall. The falcon flew off the tower heading due west in a "butterfly-" like slow flight. About 1 min. later it reappeared from the East(!), landed back on NE ledge 2. Went up to 10th floor Evans - watched the falcon. She's actively looking about, Back-to- over her shoulder, as her back faces out from the tower. She nevertheless looks relaxed. It's funny, but the weather since I last saw the falcon (Feb. 8) has been pretty warm, almost calm. Today the weather is again warm, but hazy. Visibility < 2 miles. February 18, 1989 Light drizzle, intermittent. Maren saw the falcon sitting in shelf on east side of Campanile around 17:00: I checked the Campanile at 21:00, no falcon; cross clouds clearing. February 19, 1989 15:00 - 15:30. Today started with clearing weather. Quite sunny by late morning. Slight S wind. Few high clouds. Went to 10th floor Evans. Watched the Peregrine sitting

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Field Notes Doug Bell U.C. Berkeley February 19, 1989 on ledge 2, E face of Campanile. The falcon is actively looking about, but is quite relaxed. Right foot tucked. She has a full crop. February 21, 1989 09:30 - No peregrine on Campanile. 13:00 - " " 16:00 - " " 17:30 - " " Weather, warm, hazy, calm. Very high thin cloud layer too. February 22, 1989 10:00 - No Peregrine on Campanile. 11:30 - " " Weather cooler, calm, some fog, mist around moon. No sun. 17:30 - No Peregrine. February 23, 1989 9:00 - No Peregrine 11:00 - No Peregrine. 17:30 - No Peregrine. Weather - thin high overcast. February 24, 1989 9:30 - No Peregrine. Weather thin high overcast, calm, cool. 17:30 - No Peregrine February 28, 1989 Weather cooling, but still sunny.

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Field Notes Doug Bell U. C. Berkeley February 28, 1989 - cont. 10:00 - No Peregrine on Campanile. 16:00 - " 18:00 - " March 1, 1989 Weather -> thickening overcast, cold. No sun. 10:00 - No Peregrine on Campanile. March 2, 1989 11:45 - No Peregrine on Campanile. 17:30 - " March 3, 1989 12:00 18:00 - " March 4, 1989 13:00 - No Peregrine on Campanile March 6, 1989 17:30 - No Peregrine on Campanile March 7, 1989 10:00 - No Peregrine. March 10, 1989 13:00 - No Peregrine. March 14, 1989 10:00 - No Peregrine. Warm, sunny weather. April 6, 1989 Have not seen the Peregrine since Feb. 19, 1989. Went to Campanile today, collected pigeon kill remains.

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Field Notes Doug Bell Pine Canyon, Contra Costa Co., Calif. April 2, 1984 Pat Sander and I hiked up through Pine Canyon, from Castle Rock Park all the way to the upper reservoir, beyond the power lines and rock areas. Gary Beeman had told me that he saw Prairie Falcons + Bill Swaringen on one of the smaller rocks on March 19, 1984; and saw them incubating in a pot-hole on April 1, 1984. He told me the birds were on a rock due east from the horse-gate. Pat and I hiked up the canyon, stopping to scan all the rocks along the way. As usual, there was lots of human activity: hikers, horseback riders, mountain bikers. Several groups of people walking up about the cliffs too. The first long cliff face, as one hikes up the canyon, is the one that had Peregrines on it in the 40's. This rock is pictured in the 1985 Peregrine book. This rock also gets a lot of human activity. There is a smaller rock with a large cavern just in front of this old peregrine rock. Still further up the canyon is the big, deep, thick rock. It is massive, but relatively low in the canyon. The old stick nest appears to have been added on, as it now reaches nearly to the top of its crevess. Up from this massive rock are two more [crossed out] medium-size formations - one with a pinnacle on top of it. Still further up the canyon are a couple smaller rocks and then, on a slight bulge, is a small rock formation jutting out from chaparral. It

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Field Notes Doug Bell Peregrine Kills - Campanile, U.C. Berkeley 6 April 1989 1. Koel shoulder girdle left wing: Standard pigeon. 2. Pigeon pelvis - half. 3. Pigeon leg - right. 4. Pigeon leg - left. 5. Pigeon leg & piece of left pelvis. 6. Pigeon wings & shoulder girdles: Buff-brown/rust coverts & secondaries, white primaries; plus Rust/buff colored pigeon head. 7. Pair of pigeon legs - light colored pigeon Banded NBRC-88-CC 194 10 November 1988 1. Pigeon gizzard 2. Pigeon gizzard 3. Pigeon gizzard 4. Pigeon wing feathers: Rust & white P's 5. Pigeon wing feathers: Gray & white P's 6. Pigeon wing feathers: Normal race 7. Pigeon head white 8. Pigeon head dark. 9. Pigeon gizzard. 10. Small bird breast bone (blackbird-size) 11. Small bird breast bone " " 12. Red-shafted Flicker primaries. 13. 5 pellets - dark feather & seeds in 3 pellets 14. 4 pellets - light feathers & seeds -> in 2 pellets 15. 1 pigeon load -> Rust brown head.

16. Pigeon [illegible] leg - light hind. Band No. NP A 88 RA 5980 17. Burrowing Owl: 2 legs + bill. 30 January 1989 1. Pigeon shoulder girdle + wings: Buff wrists, white Ps. 2. Pigeon wings: Black wrists, 5°; White primaries 3. Pigeon wings: Normal colours. 4. Pigeon wings: Normal coln 5. Pigeon wings & shoulder girdle: Buff throat. 6. Pigeon wing & shoulder girdle: buff [illegible] throat. 7. Pigeon wings + pelvis + breast + shoulder girdle. Black shoulder, wrists, white Primaries. Bad. NBRC 88 J761 8. Black pigeon head. 9. Pigeon leg - right 10. Pigeon leg - DJØ 87 815 11. Pair pigeon legs NP A 88 BY 19 12. Pigeon pelvis + left leg 13. Pigeon leg - left. 14. 8 pellets → left feathers. 15. 7 pigeon gizzards seeds in 5 gizzards.

Field Notes Dory Bell April 2, 1989 is probably not more than 50' in height in front, and behind it is about 10' to its top. Further up the hill from it is another small rock with a flat "table". The prairie falcons are in a pothole in the 50' rock, at its very crest: The pothole is less than 5' from top of rock. Anyway, Pat & I walked up the entire canyon to the reservoir, costs & 1 pt. Mallards on water. Then we hiked back down to the horse gate, and hiked up the ridge (Pine Ridge) west of Pine Canyon. Sat & ate lunch, & watched the second-to-last set of rocks on the opposite hillside. Saw nothing but 2 turkey vultures (>20), red-tails (3-5), and white-throated Swifts. After ca. 1.5 hours we

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Field Notes Doug Bell April 2, 1989 began hiking back down the canyon, thinking it was without Prairies. As we entered the meadow, a large flat area in the canyon about in the middle of the rocky area, I heard falcon screaming. We looked up, and I saw two Prairie Falcons flying about. One then flew in to the pothole, and disappeared into it. We excitedly hiked up Pine Ridge, and, as we climbed higher, we could view the falcon incubating. She peered out of the hole. In the course of our hike to the top of the ridge we often stopped to view her. We could see directly into the hole, about 1/4 mile away. The falcon occasionally turned the eggs & resettled. At one point a Siskin hopped up on the table rock, but that did not seem to disturb the falcon. She could not see that rock because it was behind hers. We had just seen the Tiedel fly past and scream, but he did not return to harass the hikers. At this time there were about 10 different people up on the rocks, including 3 loud & drunken teenage boys. Most the people were scrambling about the large rocks to the north west of the Prairie Falcon rock. A couple times we saw the Tiedel fly right past people without being bothered. At one time the falcon came off the ridge to greet the Tiedel, and it looked like a very small food item was exchanged. The

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Field Notes Doug Bell April 2, 1989 falcon flew right back to the pothole, swallowed the item, then walked over to her eggs + settled. From our vantage on Pine Ridge we could see the cancerous growth of Concord + Walnut Creek to the north, new houses being built on a ridge to the west (from Danville), and a few horses to the south from Diablo & Blackhawk. It is unbelievable that prairie Falcons are nesting in Pine Canyon. In addition, the Park Superintendent, Mr. Felix Arteaga, & Gerry Beeman, said Prairies are on Blackhawk too.

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Field Notes Doug Bell Mendocino Co., Humboldt Co., Calif. April 8, 1989 Berkeley, CA -> So. Humboldt Co., CA. Left Berkeley at about 12:30. Very hot day - 80°. Arrived at Squaw Rock, Mendocino Co. 14:30. Hot sunny. The new road out of Cloverdale ends approx. 1 mile so. of Squaw Rock. Met a fellow from S.F. - Mr. Nick Wheeler - who was watching the rock for peregrines. He said he had just seen the male come scooting by out of the math. The falcon (♀) came off the rock, screaming. He met the turel, then flew up to an old Red-tail stick nest at the upper left section of the cliff. The turel peregrine flew off south down the Russian River. Meanwhile, Mr. Wheeler could not tell if the falcon had laid down in the stick nest, or flown off elsewhere on the cliff. At any rate, there was no food transfer. I watched the rock for about 20 min, then had to go. Did not see any falcons - but there were several spots with lots of whitewash - mostly perching spots. The long shelf about 43 up its main face appears to be shorter in length. Some whitewash visible off to the right of some piled up flat rocks. Did Monte's group put the rocks there for shelf improvement? The ravena nest is active again - saw at least & one bird on the nest - coal black, eyes blinking. The nest has grown in depth - the birds might be running out of building space! Russian River looked healthy - foamy light green. Arrived in Garberville at around 17:10. Very hot. Brown's Sporting Goods has a Barretta 12-g. side-by-side for $299. Looks in good shape. Arrived at the Bueiland Peregrine cage by 17:30. Nice

View of Brizeland ledge from mailboxes Athole from 1988 Where birds seem to switch places- 1989

Field Notes Doug Bell Humboldt Co., Calif. April 8, 1984 - ant view, & in sun most of the rock. . After a couple minutes a fellow drove by & stopped - Mr. Willie Bosco - he asked if I had seen the birds. all of a sudden we saw a falcon fly in from the south across the cliff face & land in a snag up off to the left. It looked like a "heavy bird", with yellowish feet, thick cap & very clean breast & belly. Very whitish -at most faint hints of faded, pencil thin black baring on lower breast. It had a full cap. I looked over the cliff- it looks like the pothole from last year has a spider web glistening across it. Also, funny white stick in right hand corner of the pot hole. Just the falcon flew back to the cliff. Screaming heard, also c-chucking. The falcon landed on a small tussrock at lower right corner of a big pothole- crevass complex to the right of last year's pothole. One bird came out from deep to the right of the large crevass, flew- off & up to snag on right if cliff. The other falcon, that had just landed on the tussrock, hopped behind it, appeared to nibble at something for about a minute, and then walked to the back of the crevass. Meanwhile, the "relieved bird" was on its way, preening. Might be the turkel - but it had definite malar stripe, was more colorful than the other bird; had well defined triangular black barring on flanks, many black teardrops on belly, pinkish breast, and orange yellow cere & legs. I just could not tell from the size if it was male a female. It flew off south, but then came back about 10 min later to land in a snag. Mr. Bosco said he saw both falcons engaged in aerial

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Field Notes Doug Bell Humboldt Co., Calif. April 8, 1989 - cont. courtship last week. It sure looks now like they are in - eluding. Pam & Todd drove past while I was talking to Bosco. Drove up to Pam & Todd's ranch at Goat Rock by 18:30. No sign of any falcons, but there is a big white goat on the rock. Flock of 15 Ravens on pasture near Benbow's house. Lots of meadowlarks. Grass is green, short, very clean. The main pothole on Goat Rock has a healthy patch of grass right in the middle of it. The left corner of the face of the pothole looks different - it might have chipped off a section. Weather is cool, light breeze. Just scraps of high clouds. 20:10 - heard short scream of falcon as I left, but did not see anything. April 9, 1989 08:30 - at Goat Rock observation point, Phelps Ranch, Humboldt County. Heard high-pitched screaming, short duration. A peregrine is sitting on large snag at top right of rock. In full sunlight: dark blue/black cap, thick malar but noticeable white near auriculars. Whole breast & belly appears very white. Fine belly + flank markings are yellow. Very neat, compact appearance - Tiercel? Weather is still hot. 08:48 - Tiercel still on high snag. Heard wail - from its mate? 08:50 - Tiercel (?) off snag, flew out in my direction - quicks wing beats - really looks like Tiercel. He circled over my observation hill. Wailing heard coming from rock - possibly ? begging for food? Telling & to go

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Field Notes Doug Bell Humboldt Co., Calif. April 9, 1984 out & hunt? The wailing varies greatly in pitch - maybe the falcon is not in a pothole, sounds as if it's sitting in a smog. Intermittent wailing over 2 minutes, 09:00 - just saw a peregrine fly up into lower tree on right of cliff - same level as pothole. Sat for a minute, then flew back across rock & out over ridge to SW. 09:00-09:30 - No peregrine activity whatsoever. 09:46 - still no activity. Todd is coming down, so maybe we'll climb the rock now. 10:00-11:00; Climbed down into large pothole. As we approached rock ledge from above saw tiercel first - he screamed weakly, circled about in front of rock. Then the falcon (?) got up. Todd thinks she launched off from a tree on right of rock, near their favorite perching spots. The birds did not scream much. Todd recorded them. No defense as I climbed into the pothole. Pothole is very clean - no scrape to speak of, few footprints, one or two whitewash marks. Possible rat tail sign. Tail sign of a rodent. Only after I was at base of rock, coming around to the left of it did I hear the female give her loud, raspy kek-kek-kek. I didn't know what to think. Either 1) the falcons are using another pothole or 2) they didn't lay this year. Judging from behavior so far, I think it's #2. 11:00 - 12:00. No sign of Peregrines. 13:50-14:15. No sign of Peregrines. Then suddenly heard screaming. Saw tiercel fly up to smog or lower right of cliff - low. Heard c-chucking, then wail of 4. She appeared at pothole on right side of rock, just at the left upper corner of the huge overhang (see diagram). She sat on

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Field Notes Doug Bell Humboldt Co., Mendocino Co., Calif. April 9, 1989 the ledge to the pothole for about 10 min. Alternately mailing a 2-chucking every 30 sec. or so. D stayed on lower snag tree combination then flew off. I eventually left the pothole, flew across rock and off to SW ridge. 14:30, a falcon reappeared at perch underneath large overhang on right side of rock. Screaming loud. It hopped to another perch under the overhang, then disappeared after 5 min. 14:48 - No sign of peregrines. left into 15:20 - at Buekland eyrie. Falcon can be seen incubating. I parked higher up road, above maillepes. Eyrie is located right smack in middle of large, open pothole. Falcon panting, sitting on 3 eggs. She looked up, stood up ran to ledge, whereupon her brood patches were clearly visible (2 at least); and jumped off kok-hok-hoking. Within less than a minute she was back on the eggs, settling down like a hen. This bird was the dark, heavily barred, colorful one that I saw yesterday. Its' amazing where the nest is - totally exposed to afternoon sun. I sleep drooping wings, panting. 15:50 - End of observations. squaw 17:30-20:00 - Stopped at Squaw Rock, Mendocino Co.. Hiked way up the opposite ridge, east of 101, to get a better view of the rock. I thought The falcona might be incubating in an old hawk nest up near the left top of the main portion of Squaw Rock, because this is where the fellow saw the

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Field Notes Doug Bell April 9, 1989 falcon [illegible] land yesterday. The next ledge from last year, the long horizontal cleft across the face of Squaw Rock, appeared to have been reduced in size - possibly due to rock slides. There are now two shelf areas, both with rocks piled up on their outer ledges, where I think there had been one long, continuous shelf. The rock piles appear to have been man-made (Monty Kivens' Group - ledge improvements), but they sure look fragile. Not too much experiment on the ledges proper. No sign of the falcons. The sun was setting, I kept hiking up higher, staying just in the shaded lee of the rock so I could still focus on it. Clearly saw the raven incubating in her nest. Lots of swallows up way high (500') and to the north of the rock. Air still, loaded with insects, warm. After long searching, I saw a falcon pop up from behind the rock pile on the right-hand ledge. It looked out over the area (possibly at me), then walked down out of sight behind the rocks after only a minute or so. That is, I guess, where the falcons are incubating.

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Field Notes Doug Bell Location: Preston Ranch, near Moraga, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Date: April 16, 1989 willow area, entrance to ranch American Goldfinch: singing males; >30 Northern Oriole: Pair, singing male; 2 pairs Common Bushtit: 2 Red-winged Blackbird: singing males Starling: 11 Yellow-rumped Warbler: pair House Finch: singing males >20; Purple Finch: singing males ~5 Mockingbird: pairs. Red-tailed Hawk: 11 Brown Towhees: 1111 Raven: pairs Golden-crowned Sparrow: 11 Song Sparrows: 3 pairs. Calif. Quail: Scrub Jay: 11 Kestrel: 1 Chestnut-backed Chickadee: 2 Killdeer: 2 Ladder-backed Woodpecker Upper Lake: Meadowlarks: 111 Mallard Duck: pair - eclipse plumage Starling: 1 Kestrel: 1 Ridges - Northern end Red-tailed Hawks: 3 birds, including one bird still incubating on nest - clear view of her red tail. Meadowlarks: 1111 Red-winged Blackbirds: 11

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Field Notes Dray Bell Location: Preston Ranch, near Moraga, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Date: April 16, 1987 Lower Lake area Great Blue Heron: 1 Mourning Dove: 2 Annas Hummingbird: 3. Western Bluebird: 2 pair. Western Meadowlarks: 1111 Devel's Hole: Salamander (~5", olive drab, vertically flattened, finned tail + eggs) Wrentit: 11 Bewicks Wren: 1 Turkey Vulture: 1 Loyote Gulch: Calif. Quail: 15 Wrentit: 4 Downy Woodpecker: 2 Turkey Vulture: 2 Red-shouldered Towhee: 1111 Scrub Jay: 11111 Wrentit: 2 Western Flycatcher: 2 Golden-crowned Sparrow: 111 Bewicks Wren: 1 Orange-crowned Warbler: 1 & singing. House Finch: 3 Western Meadowlark: 3 + 2 Am. Goldfinch: 10 Brown Towhee: 6 Northern Oriole: 11 (9 w/nest material) Western Kingbird: 1 & singing. Red-tailed Hawk: 1 Western Bluebird: 2

Field Notes Dory Bell April 16, 1989 Location: Preston Ranch, near Moraga, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Coyote Gulch - cont Calif. Quail : 111 Common Bushtit : 7 Plain Titmouse : 2 Violet Green Swallow Hestrel. We hiked on Preston Ranch from about 11:30 - 15:30, going in our usual loop, first along N-W Ridge, then down to lower lake, thence along riparian corridor to Coyote Gulch, up Coyote Gulch to its Western head, then back over to east ridge, above Lafayette Valley Estates, finally back to lower lake, then up to Upper Lake.

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Field Notes Doug Bell Location: Pine Canyon, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Date: April 16, 1989 John Dain, Marcia & I arrived at Castle Rock Park (foot of Diablo Mt.) at approx. 16:00. We hiked up the canyon to the rocks. Lots of Redwings, Black-headed Grosbeaks, and Northern Orioles. Turkey Vultures, Red-tailed Hawks, couple Kestrels. Fewer people on the rocks today. At the meadow we set the scope up probably within 5 min. the Prairie Falcons could be heard screeching. Day quickly exchanged incubation duties (it looked like the I went off, I came on). We then hiked up Pine Ridge to get a better view of the falcon pothole. Could see the falcon incubating eggs. She seemed a bit restless, getting off the eggs twice, once to leave the pothole altogether, then return within a minute. She did several settling moves on eggs, often reaching down with her bill to move them (or are they hatching?). Quite the mother hen. When she left the nest once, she flew to another rock north of this's, sat for a minute, then returned to the hole from the south (I lost sight of her when she landed on north rock). As we were hiking out, mess around 18:30, the tiercel came in to chase off about 5 Turkey Vultures which had landed on their rock. Very nice - he really looks small. Up on Pine Ridge: large flock of Lesser Goldfinches (20-30), singing Lark Sparrow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpeckers (pair); Calif. Quail.

Field Notes Doug Bell April 13, 1989 With Bob Jones at Moss Landing Wildlife Area, near mouth of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Co., Calif. We arrived at parking lot for the Cal. Fish & Game Wildlife Area just east of 101 and north of the former salt ponds. We hiked out along north end of slough into the mud flats. Fair numbers of willets, godwits, least sandpipers, mallards, in the slough area, Red-winged Blackbirds. Several Blue-winged Teal. We walked out into the mud flat via the levee, to the break. About 30 Harle Ducks resting on mud flat. Several pairs of gulls on slough islands - appears to be on territory, as well as about 30 gulls loafing on the levee. We tried walking out into flats, but mud too soft. Since we couldn't proceed farther, we went back to the parking lot. Then drove out to this levee just east of Elkhorn Slough bridge. Walked out the levee. Crane repairing levee in sloughs. Probably not more than 12 pair of gulls scattered about the flats. We walked out the levee, where I then shot four gulls. DAB 437 - 440: 5 shots / 4 gulls.

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

Field Notes Doug Bell April 26, 1989 of Santa Catalina & San Clemente to east & south, and way in distance to the west, the long form of San Nicolas Island. Back at camp saw a very yellow-green flycatcher, at first thought it was a yellow wagtail from the way it flew. It seemed to have an exceptionally long tail, and was larger than an average Empidonax. Lots of Meadowlarks & Horned Larks! Saw fledged young horned larks. At night we managed to to catch a Xantus Murrelet by hand. Their voices clearly heard throughout early evening & morning. Barn Owls inspected my camp. April 27, 1989 Went to west slopes for gull trapping. Scoured about 1000 nests, found only 4 with eggs! (3 two-egg nests, 1 one-egg). Trapped gulls off the 2 egg nests -- only four birds. DAB 442-445. Lots of work for so few birds. April 28, 1989 We were picked up by the Park Service boat at about 13:00. Stopped off at Anacapa I. on way. Arrived Ventura 16:00.

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 4, 1989 Landed on Red Rock. SP Day 10:00 AM. Walking up east Terrace - found Canada Goose nest on beach - pair, 5 eggs. 2! Black-crowned night herons scared up. Saw 2 House Finches, head long sparrow. Hearn nest in Porter Oak crossed nests; egg on ground. Gull nests: Principally top of Red Rock: NEST : TTT TT T T T T T = 34 + 1 Egg : TTT T T ! = 11 + 2 Eggs: TTT T T T T TTTTT = 24 + 3 Eggs: TTT TTT TTT TTT ! = 21 T = 90 Peregrine Falcon seen off north-east end of island - looked up, heard at a Black-c. N Heron squawking, the falcon dove on it near the beach. Then turned & flew back to the San Rafael Bridge. Landed on North pylon of the main south span. Brownish lark, streaked lelly, 2 song sparrows carrying food in bill. Chicken lover around gull nests. West terrace near top, but below cypress trees has grass-flattened area with loads of Goose egrement. Canada Goose or eggs in crevices above west-facing cliffs. This is the same location as last years nest. 1 pair Ravens flew past. In surveying the NW tip I scared up 85 Blue- crowned Night Herons. As we came down the east terrace I heard a squawk - as I looked up some

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 4, 1989 the Peregrine stoop on a Black-crowned Night Heron, hit it rather hard with its feet, then fly off. After we went down to the beach I got the gun out and proceeded to try to collect nesting gulls "diplomatically". Scrambled up the N. east terrace, shot 2 birds on territory (DAB 446,447); then another near its nest on the beach (DAB 448). 5 shots, 3 gulls. Summary of birds on Red Rock, SF. Bay: 1) 85 Black-crowned Night Herons (+ nests in poison oak & cypress trees) 2) 90 Western Gull nests (mostly on top counted); w/ {34 fresh nests + 56 nests w/eggs} 351 potential nesting gulls counted on boat survey - all cliffs, etc.; or ~ 175 nests total for the island. % estimate 150 - 200 Western Gull nests on rock. 3) Song Sparrows - nesters 4) House Finches - " " 5) White-throated Swifts - nesters 6) Canada Goose - 2 nests w/eggs 7) Peregrine Falcon - ♀, juvenile.

All Rock - Boat Survey East Terrace - 127 WC 16 BCNH 1 Can Guote nest + eggs Walking Survey East Terrace [illegible] BCNH + 59 BCNH 1 nest/egg on ground Slitk NW 57 WC NW Terrace 100 WC W Face 90 WG + 16 WG Rock 43 Pelagic 6 Brants Cormorants 2 Spotted. - 1 (make note next visit, p.) Total wets. gulls counted during last survey: 127 62 57 100 90 --- 335 + 16 --- 351 -> W. Gulls counted 4 2L351/ 175 -> nest.

Field Notes Doug Self May 5, 1989 Went to Alcatraz Island w/ Ray Pinotti, Alan Fish, Terri Thomas (GCNRA). Alan Fish had organized a symposium on the gull situation on Alcatraz. Development plans for Alcatraz, as laid out in the Lawrence Halprin proposal, does not take the gulls into consideration. In fact, in our meeting it was made clear that the plan as it stands would 1) significantly adversely affect the W. Gull population and 2) the W. Gull population represents an important resource for both the Bay Area and the N.P.S. (through the possibility of offering great visits / gull interpretation). Since the colony is significant 250-300 pairs, some consideration for developing gull nesting habitat should be made. The initial plan calls for develop the Parade Grounds and open a perimeter trail. Both will be OK if gull nesting habitat could be improved on the cistern & industry building roof. In addition, certain areas could be designated & managed for gull breeding: e.g. incinerator area, NW store, etc. Provided that barriers could be erected & grass mowed. Perimeter trail should be opened in January to allow gulls to adapt to regular visitors. On Alcatraz I., many gulls on eggs, I'd say about 1/3 of nests had eggs (slightly advanced compared to Red Rock). Parade Grounds has approx 40 nests. Island vegetation very lush- lush - due to late rains. On my return to SF I walked to

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Field Notes Dory Bell May 5, 1989 the Bay Bridge to check on the Peregrines. Saw a falcon sitting on hose hanging down from span east of cement pillar/anchorage. This was at 16:00. As I scanned over bay to south saw the falcon une powering down in a long dive towards water. Well south of bridge the falcon dove into flock of small shorebirds that may have been crossing the water [W. Sandpipers?] or came up from the water (Phalaropes?). Two groups of shorebirds split up. Falcon chased one group just above water, but then I lost site of it. Soon thereafter the bird returned to the hose & sat for about 1.5 hours. I don't think it ate. Large ships passed underneath, including an aircraft carrier (#70) w/out disturbing it. At 17:30 falcon disappeared. Reappeared at about 17:45 on beam just east of last pylon of bridge on SF side. Nice view of it preening. Could see Dave Gregory & film crew trying to film it.

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 22, 1989 Left Berkeley at 15:00 hrs, drove Highway 5 north, arrived Portland, OR at [illegible]:30 hrs. Intermittent, heavy rain from Weed, CA northwest, May 23, 1989 Left Portland 10:00 hrs, arrived Chinook, WA about 12:00. Glenn Eger was in his office at the Port of Chinook. We shot the breeze, he and Mike said they got a new outboard for the skiff, and I'm welcome to use it. Wind was blowing too hard to come out at high tide (16:49). I got everything ready though, went to Victoria, talked to various gunsmiths, etc. The wind finally died down enough around 8 19:00 hrs. I loaded up the boat and came out at 20:00 hrs (left Chinook). Searched 2 flocks of Mallards at the pilings on East Sand Island, and a pair of Canadian Henkers. The gulls got very upset. It almost looks as if I am too early - many birds may not yet be on eggs. I discovered I forgot a bucket [illegible], so I may have to go back tomorrow morning. May 24, 1989 Got up at high tide (03:00 hrs). Broken clouds, 7/8 moon. Boat was OK. Decided to motor back to Chinook & pick up good bucket Trip OK, no major problems - went back to

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Field Notes May 24, 1989 - cont. sleep in tent at 05:00. Got up at 10:00 D. Arranged camp, checked boat. Intermittent rain. Set up blind in central colony. Out in mud flats saw 9 Great Scup in water; 8 ad. Canada Geese (large) + 3 sets of chicks: 9+9+11. all about 2 weeks old. 6 Snow Geese. One imm. Bald Eagle (2½ years old). The Cormorant colony at w. end of island is active, several groups of Double-crested Cormorants going by. 13:00 - 19:00 : Watching nests & recording morphotype frequencies from blinds. Observed a forced copulation between 2 H/2 W6. 19:00 - 21:00 - Surveying middle, east portion of island. This is the area where dredge spills were layered many years ago. Just off the dredge spills the area has become quite overgrown with brushy willows. Nutria sign all over. Yellow-brown banana slips with every step - zillions of 'em. Seem to be fewer barn swallows this year. Saw one pair of tree swallows. Song sparrows most common landbird. Scared up one White-crowned Sparrow. Single pair of Gadwall off the south side of island. Only an occasional Lapwing Tern. Small flocks of imm. Ring-billed Gulls.

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 25, 1989 10:00 - 16:00 Back in blind trying to obtain morphotype on a few more pairs. Saw three country's feeding so far - all fish (one of large fish (8"), I couldn't swallow - light green sides; 2 others of minnow type fish. One forced copulation (attempt only)..♂ from nest 11 (WG) came over and hopped on ♀ from nest 13 (WG). ♂ of nest 13 (

Field Notes Doug Bell May 26, 1989 05:15 - Up to check on boat. The 8.0 tide floated it. I moved it to a deeper mooring so the lesser tides will float it. Went back into the tent at 0600. Wet & rainy, cold. Imm. Bald Eagle flew by. 0930 - Up late !? Rainy all morning. Loons heard calling. Saw couple Common Loons. Went out to tent #1. Watched nest 15. Finally saw both of pair at 12:00. Both hybrid gulls ! Also saw a pair of GW's courting. 13:00 - 20:30 In tent Location 2, checking gulls. Rained the whole time - sopping wet. Took down blind # in rain. Wind 20 knots. Nearly blew the blind apart. May 27, 1989 Up at 06:30 to check on boat - it floated on a 7.4 tide ! whoo. Rained hard all night. Clearing this morning. Double rainbow over Fort Canby & Lighthouse. Quite beautiful. Had dry breakfast, 09:00 - 14:00 checked gulls in blind 2 area - also greasy, rocky & driftwood habitat. So far, the 2 blinds have been in the greasy, rocky middle portion of East Sand Island west of the thinnest part of the center island area. 15:00-17:00 Survey east end of island. Counted 46 Mallards, 33 Canada Geese ( + 4 broods ), 2 indigern on marshy flats at NE end. In beach-shelf area (sand, driftwood , long beach grass habitat) counted 356 gulls. An area of dredge spills - the level table at east end

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 27, 1989 of island - counted about 100 gulls. 17:00 - Set up blind location 3 in grassy habitat area between blinds 1 + 2. Checked morphotypes until 20:30. No rain all afternoon + evening. Beautiful evening sky, broken clouds + red hues. Should mention that I regularly see nutria from the blinds. Usually towards evening. They come out & graze inbetween the gulls. The gulls don't seem to mind. May 28, 1989 Up at 08:30. Rained much of the night, still raining. The boat was already dry when I checked it at 09:30. Strange - tide went out quick. From camp saw Violet-green Swallows & Bank Swallow, in addition to Barn swallows. By the way - thought A hooded Black-capped Chickadees yesterday, & Goldfinches. Definitely heard Brown-headed Cowbirds. 10:30 - In blind #3. Recorded morphotypes until 14:30. Then weighed + measured eggs. 16:30 - 20:30 - Set up blind #4 on dredge tailings at east end of island. This colony appears to be later than the other colonies, also seem to be more hybrids & pure GWi. The habitat is sparse brush, mixed grasses, some in clumps. At the east end it's all quite flat & sparse. The grass becomes thicker & higher at middle & western portion of the dredge "table". As I was in tent a man walked by,

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 28, 1989 I asked him what he was doing, just kind of a heavy-set guy, rather slow, red-neck. He said if this was a protected island, why isn't it posted. The evening was just beautiful. Rather calm, broken sky. The gulls settled in next to the tent very well. Even had a pair come right under the window. Canada geese landed on the flats in the gull colony. On my way back to camp I passed 3 dead Sea Lions on south beach. Savannah Sparrows are in the marsh habitat and on the dog bridge table. May 29, 1989 09:30 - Counting overall types for middle portion of island. Another man came up to me. He & Buddy are camping at waterhole on east end. Just great. 10:00 - In Blind 4 picking up final nest types. Unfortunately, the jerks that are camping at this colony are upsetting the gulls too much. Nevertheless, I figured out the morphotypes of a few more pairs. Tried recording some, too. Then marked the nests, measured eggs, and packed up the blind. This colony is definitely a later colony than the gulls nesting in the middle area. Also surveyed the eastern end for overall proportions of W6:H:GW (Western : Hybrid : Glaucous-winged Gulls). 14:30 - 16:00. At Blind 3 deciphering remaining gull

May 29 - 30, 1969 Boat Lic. No. of East Snd Island Campers WN368AT

Field Notes Doug Bell May 29, 1984 - cont pairs. While I was in the blind one of the campers came out and walked clear around the west end of the island. He did exactly what I told him not to do! The idiot. So when he came back in my direction I chewed him out for disturbing the entire island. He must have scared up about 400 gulls and 100 lemonant at one time in the far west end. Anyway, I cleared out my blind, packed up camp and got ready to leave at high tide. Wandered around the middle portion of the island. Scared up some fresh-fledged Savannah Sparrows in the willow area. Saw Horned Larks on table-dredge area. Violet-green Swallows, Bank Rough- winged & Barn Swallow at pier pilings. pilings. Starlings nesting in holes of pier ruins. Small mammal - rat size - scampered out from under my feet (young Nutria^2). Saw the 3 Black Brant and a couple dusky Canada Geese on mud flats west of pier. Common Loon, in breeding plumage, on water. Fair numbers of greater Scaup (>100), some lesser Scaup, too. Small group (7 individuals) of Least Sandpipers on beach. And Killdeer definitely nesting on the island. Yellow Warblers frequent the trees (conifers) at my campsite.

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 29, 1984 East Sand Island Survey: Gull morphotypes: 1. Western middle area of island (Blinds 1-3) 105:52:16 W:H:GWC Grass (low) driftwood habitat 2. East end of island: Beach, beachgrass, driftwood 109:36:15 3. Dredge Table: Clumped grass, sparse bushes 57:48:14 * Total numbers of nests (estimated): Gulls East Beach/Driftwood 150-175 Table/Dredge spoils 100 Middle areas west of pier pilings: 150 West end - sandy beach, grass, wood: 250 Total gull nests: 650-675 Cormorant Nests: at least 85 nests, with easily 100-200 resting on the island. May 30, 1989 Tried coordinating island trips in Willapa Bay & Grays Harbor. Trips will get next week. Made command decision to drive down to Charleston, OR for last chance at collecting. Trip supposedly takes 4 hrs from Portland. I left Willapa Natl Wildlife Refuge WA at 12:15, arrived in Charleston, OR at 89:30. This travel time includes stops in Portland & Drain. Highway 38 between 5 and

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 30, 1989 101 is gorgeous. Saw pair Osprays south of Reeds port. May 31, 1989 Met Jan Hoddard at OIMB in Charleston, OR. Went over to the Coast Guards' ANT station to request the key to the Cape Arago Lighthouse from Chief Miller. Went out to the island from 10:00 - 15:15. Weather sunny, but extremely windy on the island (30 knots). Started checking hybrid types, set out 2 traps, specifically on nests that had hybrid or glaucous- winged gulls. Caught 2 pairs of gulls (OAB 469-472). One pair ♂ WG ♀ GW ; other ♂ GW ♀ H. Out of the entire island I identified only 2 other rather definite mixed pairs: a ♂ WG ♀ GW, and one ♂ GW ♀ WG. The latter pair is nesting on north side of base of peninsula, close to same place as last year. Most of the island's gulls appears to be good Westerns. The gulls have been forced somewhat off the peninsula because the Double-crested Cormorants have erected nests at the beginning of the peninsula. Last year this area had gulls on it. Other birds: Tufted Puffins - soaring back & forth in repetition in front of the cliffs. Pelagic Cormorants nesting on cliffs. Oystercatchers (1 pair) at the beach below the bridge. Tree Swallows + Barn Swallows, American Goldfinches, House Finches. Song Sparrows, Western Woodpeeces, Swainson's Thrushes on approach to bridge. I have the impression that more gulls are nesting

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Field Notes Doug Bell May 31, 1989 grass area near the Lighthouse. Jan Hoddard came out around 14:00. We watched gulls for awhile, then I packed up my traps and we left. Spent rest of day processing the four gulls. Saw imm. Bald Eagle fly up the Charleston Slough; heading north. Sunset. June 1, 1989 Picked up key to the gate + Lighthouse(!) from Chief Miller. Spent most of 09:30-15:00 in Lighthouse watching gulls & recording morphotypes for gulls. Extremely foggy; could barely see the peninsula of the island. Then weighed & measured eggs of 21 pairs. Made an independent count of gull morphotypes for the peninsula area; out to west end as far as I could see. The far west portion was shrouded in fog. Ratios: 113:4:2 WG:H:GWG. June 2, 1989 Drove from Charleston, OR to Newport, OR. Weather very windy; heavy fog on coast, warm weather inland. Went out to Yaquina Head from 19:30 - 21:15. Noted gull morphotypes for a small colony on south [grassy] slope of Lighthouse. The rock offshore of the head seems to have more Murre and Cormorants this year. The entire flat top is covered in Murres + Brandt's Cormorants. There are definitely several more Pelagic Cormorants on the shelves below the rim on N. side of head. Gulls also around.

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Field Notes June 3, 1989 Spent morning on pack of housing at Hatfield Marine Science Cntr, Newport, OR. Song Sparrows, White-crowned Sparrows singing, Am. Goldfinches, Barn Swallows, Brown-headed Cowbirds, Starlings. All seem to be nesting here. Checked in with Jeannie at NEWPORT WATER SPORTS (503) 867-3742 to confirm tomorrow's zodiac trip out into the ocean. Supposedly everything's set for fun. soon, when the drivers will show. Went up to Yaquina Head to check gull types, then on to Lincoln City to look for gun shops. Back at the Head for Sunset. June 4, 1989 The zodiac trip fell through! Damn. Trying other people this morning. Heard Purple Finches at the HMSC docks, also Swainson's Thrush, Lots of American Crows. Got ahold of Bob Loeffel, a retired F&W fellow, who agreed to take me out Tomorrow. Spent afternoon counting gulls at Yaquina Head. Weather sunny, hot in town. Tons of boats on water. Wind picked up in the afternoon. Yaquina Head, Lincoln Co, OREGON - Nesting Gulls 1) Big Rock 40:10:3 W: H:GWG 2) NW Rock (sm) 14:3:2 3) SW Rock 35:3:1 4) SW Head Peninsula 12:2:1 5) S Rock 4:1:1

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 4, 1989 There are definitely fewer gull nests on the south slopes of Yaquina Head this year. In fact, where there were about 10 nests there are now 2. Some of the rocks also have fewer nesters. June 5, 1989 05:30 Met Bob Looffel at the South Beach Marina. We launched his 14' Chris-Craft and headed out the bay. Thick fog, near misty drizzle, but no wind. Coast Guard said we could go past the jetty because the bar conditions were too rough. So we stayed between the jetties and I chummed gulls. Boat traffic was nearly miniscule, but the Corps of Engineers "Cedar Island" was dredging the entrance. From about 06:00 to 07:20 I collected 8 gulls (DAB 474-481) along the entrance jetties to Yaquina Bay, Lincoln Co., Oregon. Got 8 birds with 9 shots. Two were non-breeders, unfortunately. In addition, saw a Heerman's Gull, couple Brown Pelicans, a Jaeger, possible Elegant Tern. Common Murres feeding around us. Pigeon Guillemots on jetties. Saw several Green-backed Herons this morning on the compound of HMSL. 8/9 June 6, 1989 Drove from Newport, OR to South Bend, WA today. Saw a Bald Eagle (subad.) near Beaver, OR. Stopped at Tillamook Bay, intending to collect 1-2 Glaucous-winged Gulls on the spit. Warm,

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 6, 1989 sunny day. Walked out road along Bay side of spit. Singing Yellow-throats, White-crowns, Song Sparrows in the brushy areas along the way. Also American Goldfinches, 3 Marsh Hares, Brandt's Cormorants, Gulls, Robins. Crossed to the ocean side at the start of the hilly forest, stopped at crest of dunes and set up. Gulls usually follow use dune ridge to soar into NW'er and proceed north. But today there's hardly any wind. It's never been so calm out here. At any rate, only a few groups of gulls passed within range over the course of 2 hrs, 15:00-17:00. One perfect Glaucous-wing passed the peninsula way out of range. I think few gulls are flying the beach because the winds are so low, most are out at sea. Crossed back to bay, Savannah Sparrows in dunes. Out in marsh groups of resting Ring-billed Gulls, Great Skua, one Black Brant, couple Mallards, group of Snowy Plowers (2 ad., 2 imm.), Corwin Terns. Kingfishers over pond (2). Another Bald Eagle seen on Willapa Flats. Spent night in South Bend. June 7, 1989 Met the Coast Oyster boys at 09:00. Out to Pin Island by 09:30. Along way saw large flock Great Skua (550). Couple herons, one Bald Eagle (sub. ad). Loads of Harbor Seals.

S ↑ Pine Island: (Willapa Bay) rift raft wood dune wood B.grass wood Dog g sand TENT sand sand High Tide Line 20 m

Field Notes Doug Bell June 7, 1989 On bars. Pine Island is as small as ever. Gulls are really crammed in. Dead & Harbor Seal at High Water line, pup of hers (did she die in birth?) is trying to make it to water, but it looks weak. Set up blind, noted gull types until the boat came to pick me up at 12:30. On way back to South Bend we circled a navigation pilings where a pair of Barn Owls were nesting. In the evening I went for a walk over fields & along sloughs on north estuary of Willapa Bay. Numerous crows, 2 Bald Eagles, couple Ravens, Yellowthroats, Barn & Tree swallows, Swainson's Thrush, Am. Goldfinches, Mallards (2 80s scared up out of a slough). June 8, 1989 Met the Oysterman at Coast Oyster Dock. Craig took me out to Pine Island, Willapa Bay, Pacific Co., Washington. I'll spend the night here. Arrived & set up by 10:30. 2 Bald Eagles (ad & s.ad) on sand bars - I think they were feeding on some of the dead Harbor Seal pups here. Stayed in blind. Heard an occasional Ring-billed Gull & laragon Lesser fly by. Observed gulls from blind until 17:00. Figured out mates for approx. 50 pair, then went out and weighed & counted eggs. This took longer than expected. Finished

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 8, 1984 two hours later at 1900. Cold. A couple nests had pipping eggs. Many nests had fewer than 3 eggs. I think this is due to the intense crowding of gulls on this island. The nests are really packed in here. Add to the nesting gulls the 300 or so resting gulls on the flats next to the island and you wind up with a lot of gulls. West of the island on one of the bars a large dead Gray Whale had come to rest. It was about 250 ft in length. Large flock (+100) of gulls were on it this evening. I think my general impression from the island is the large proportion of Western-type gulls and surprisingly few Glaucous- winged gull types. The data collected may verify this impression. June 9, 1989 Windy night last night. Up at 0600. Decided to do a general survey of the island first, then attempt trapping from nests. Pine Island (Willapa Bay, Pacific Co., Washington) is very small. There are about 3 "habitat" types present: sand; Riff-raff, wood & sand; and dunes, wood & beach grass. The sand is found around the mean high-tide line and along a spit jutting out to the NW. The spit is about 20 m long, narrowing from about 15 m wide where it connects with the island. This area has the lowest concentration of gull nests. The riff-raff area encircles most of the island. The eastern & southern shores have the most highest density of nests. Finally,

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 9, 1989 After surveying the island I went back to my tent and set up the traps. The tent was covered in gull guano; it smelled like a mixture of liver or pure protein. Perhaps the gulls had been feeding on the whale? Managed to trap 2 gulls, and shoot 3 (OAB 482-486). Got 3 birds on 3 shots. Was picked up from Pine Island by Jim & Dave Aris. Drove down to Willapa NWR to process the gulls. 20:00 - 21:00 Went out to Cape Disappointment, north side of mouth of Columbia River. Good d' & Swainson's Thrushes with their "whewout" whistles aound. Also hearing [illegible] Varied Thrusher. (Saw crests cross the road at south end of Willapa Bay). Purple Finches singing too. On cliffs below lighthouse: Brandts + Pelagic Cormorants; gulls. House wrens singing in shrubery. Spent night at Fort Columbia Youth Hostel. Phil was still there. June 10, 1989 Phil took me on a tour of Fort Clallania. Also out to a snag on the lower side of the [illegible] west-facing slope of the park, where Bald Eagles have their nest. Saw one adult standing next to the nest. Could not see any young. New bird at the fort: Wilson's Warbler. Planned to meet Gene Leach at Chinook who'll take me out to East Sand at 15:30 today. Wind quite strong - clearing. Met Gene at 15:00. He decided to let me take his boat. Wind gusting to 20 mph. Waited until [illegible] 18:30 before going out.

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 10, 1989 Rough ride, wet. 3 ft. waves (12 foot aluminum skiff). The sub ad. Bald Eagle left the island as I landed. Savannah Sparrows, Song Sparrows singing. Saw the pair of Gadwall's fly overhead towards sunset. Set up camp, and blind on dredge table. June 11, 1989 On Goat Sand [illegible] Island. Mouth of Columbia River, Clatsop Co., Oregon. Two people have landed on west end of island 09:30, proceeding on foot east. Scaring up hundreds of gulls. When they got to my section of beach I went out & talked with them. 2 fellows in their 20's. One said he comes out far years. They were picking up plastics, ropes, etc. Said they seen more a more fish netting of the nylon sort. Think they left at about 12:30; disturbing every bird on west end, including curlews. In blind on location 4 from 10:30 - 13:30. Doing voice recordings. I was surprised to see many of the nests I had checked in May to be empty, or missing eggs. Around my camp: Song Sparrows, Barn & Tree Swallows, Starlings, Grouse, Raven. Heard a Yellow Warbler singing at [illegible] dawn. On my way back from blind on location 4 I was dive-bombed by male gull. He had 3 egg nest. He came so close, even while staring right at him, that I considered trying to wack him. Well, then he hit me in the head. So I took out my

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 11, 1989 folding chair, turned my back on him & waited. He went into his dive, and when I thought he was nearly on me I swung the chair up. Whack! I nailed the poor guy. Died instantly of a broken neck (OAB 487). From my camp near the old pier on north side of middle portion of island I counted 309 breeding gulls in the dune/sand/driftwood area of west end of island. This is the area just east of crest of dunes where the Cormorants are nesting. Counted 280 breeding gulls from dunes to camp, but this does not include any gulls [illegible] on south western beach driftwood piles as they are out of sight. I think it's safe to estimate 300 gull nests on west end dunes, and 300 gull nests from the dunes east to the central pier pilings. Then another 30 nests on south beach to east end, 100+ nests on bridge table, 150+ nests at east end beach driftwood. Totaling then 880 gull nests (a definite under estimate). Also 6 w/ cormorant nests in a tree at west end. Saw 2 groups of 5 Brown Pelicans. First of the season! (for these parts). Went back to the blind on the bridge spill to collect gulls. Collected one bird right next to blind. Had put 410 aux in the 16-Gauge. When pair #2 were standing right next to each other I pulled the trigger. Thought I pulled the 410, but it was the 16-Gauge barrel. Nailed the #only[488], a hybrid/GW.

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"Field Notes" Doug Bell June 11, 1989 Too close. After the gulls calmed down, I got both of pair 71 with one shot. The gulls were pretty jumpy by then. Trussed the 3 birds, then took the boat into Chinook at high tide to drop my tissues in the N2-tank in the car. Went back to the island for the night. June 12, 1989 Up at 06:00. Saw crows dive-bombing a Red-tailed Hawk. Collected mate of Pair 72 from blind (491), then a single flying over the colony (492). In all for East Sand Island: 1 gull with a chew, and 5 gulls on 4 shots. Quickly packed things up and sadly left East Sand on High Tide. Rode slowly out on very calm water, kept looking back at the island which I probably will not visit again for quite some time. Drove up to Westport, Washington. June 13, 1989 Met Mike Levin at Port Oyster (Mankham, WA) on Grays Bay at 06:30. After coffee we hopped in their boat, and he took me out the islands in Grays Harbor. On the way we got good views of 4 Grey Whales (medium size - 30'). Many Pigeon Guillemots near navigation towers, and quite a few Cassin's Auk Rhinoceros Auklets feeding in the Bay. Mike

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"Field Notes" "Doug Bell" June 13, 1989 said the whales have been hanging out in the bay for several months. Mike suggested I try Goose or Sand Island first. We went past Sand Island first, saw that it has a huge Caspian Tern colony (+1000) on its North end, in beach grass, sand habitat. We went on to Goose Island and saw that D-C Cormorants have literally taken over the southern portion of the island. The entire dune/flat area was flattened by cormorants. As we approached the island probably 500 D-C cormorants were scoured up. The gulls seemed to be forced to the perimeters of the dunes for nesting. We didn't land, but went back to Sand Island which lies just SW of Goose, and braces the Hurla entrance. I was dropped off at the N end of Sand Island. Proceeded around the Caspian Terns and down the spine of the island to the first larger gull colony at the start of dune/grass habitat. Set up the blind & watched gulls from 09:00 - 13:00. Most of the birds in my immediate vicinity were of Western Gull morphotypes. These were all nests placed mostly in sand and next to driftwood. If anything, more Glaucous-winged seemed to be nesting up in the tall beach grass, where it is hard to observe birds without an elevated platform. Some chicks are already present, and some nests appear to be just starting up, especially those in the less superior habitat such as beach riff-raff. When Mike came to pick me up the wind was blowing pretty hard, and it

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Field Notes Dorcy Bell June 13, 1989 was raining lightly. Over 75 Brown Pelicans lifted off the beach just behind the Caspian Tern colony. I'll return to Sand Island tomorrow. June 14, 1989 Mike Finn brought me back out to Sand Island, Grays Harbor, Grays Harbor Co., Washington. Recorded gull morphotypes from 08:30 - 12:30, then collected 2 gulls DAB 493-494. 2 birds on 2 shots. I noticed an egg-stealing gull. Every time it came into the colony all the gulls would alarm call. Several usually gave chase. Saw this gull down a whole egg in one gulp. June 15, 1989 Mike dropped me off on Whitcomb Island, Grays Harbor, Washington. Set up both my sleeping tent and my observation tent. The island is in the highest dune area at middle-north end of island. Spent rest of day noting gull types & weighing eggs. This is a large colony of mixed birds. Counted gulls overall: Small south colony: 110 gulls (nesting) Middle flats to dunes: 234 " Dunes to north end: 370 " Another large Caspian Tern colony on this island - it's at the SW end, near the small south gull colony. This land is new - the sand and dunes are

Field Notes Doug Bell June 15, 1989 now high enough to support a tern colony (I don't recall a large tern colony here last year). Probably fewer than 700 Caspian Terns in the colony. These birds are also less "nervous" than the colony over on Sand Island. Spent the day from 10:00 - 19:15 in blind, then measured and weighed eggs from 19:15 - 21:15. 3/4 moon out, broken clouds, beautiful night sky. Surprisingly, the entire colony became quiet after 22:00. June 16, 1989 The Caspian Tern colony became noisy at 04:30. But I slept until 06:00. Went right to study site at the high dune area, finished weighing some eggs, then climbed in the blind. Got all morpho-types on my pairs by 08:45. Then got out the gun to collect a couple birds. Thought I would try to get a particular W&W pair with one shot. The angle from the blind was good to possibly even pick up a third bird. While I was planning this out the pairs began mutual preening and all congregated in line as I fired. 4 dead gulls resulted! As I packed them up I noticed a fifth dead bird further back. So, all for me shot - 2 mated pairs (DAB 495, 496, 497, 498) and one single (499). Turns out, the single belonged to a 3 chick nest whose mate showed up. So I shot him (DAB 500), then put the chicks in other

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Field Notes Dory Bell June 16, 1989 nests with comparable-aged chicks. Mike picked me up from Whitcomb Island (Grays Harbor, WA) at 10:00. On ride back to Markham I saw a couple Cassin's Auklets on the harbor. Spent rest of day at the Coast Oyster Plant, Markham, preparing the gulls. Saw several Caspian Terns, gulls along the slough there, plus a Bald Eagle. Rufous Hummingbirds, Barn, Cliff & Rough-winged Swallows. On the islands in Grays Harbor I also saw an occasional occasional long-billed Curlew, and ad. Ring-billed gulls that make me believe they might be nesting out there. Drove to Olympia, WA, met Mike Graham & at his boat. We went for a ride in his skiff - a beautiful sweet, calm evening on the water. June 17, 1989 08:30 - Trapping gulls at the Port of Olympia Warehouse next to the Dept. of Wildlife's office. Caught a male (OAB 501) off 3 egg nest with pipping eggs [nest 3] right away, but nothing else for the rest of the day. Left my walk-in traps on nests 1 + 2 overnight. Mike Graham & I went for another evening cruise in his 14' skiff "Brown Trout". Weather had been rainy, but it cleared by evening

Field Notes Doug Bell June 18, 1989, Caught a female in trap over nest #1 (040 502). She was the loud one. Also has darker 1st tips! So much for pure Glencross-wings in Olympia. Drove from Olympia to Neah Bay, WA. Arrived in Neah Bay about 19:00. Was sitting in MAKAH CAFE with a view of the bay when an ad. Bald Eagle came stooping down upon an Osprey. The Osprey dropped something which the Eagle picked out of the water. As the eagle flew away the Osprey made one long shallow strop at. The eagle landed on an old piling + sat for about an hour. Could not see if it ate anything. June 19, 1989 Met Bob Paine + his group (Tim Wosten, Sarah, Liz) from U of W. at Al's Big Salmon at 12:15. We got the stuff out, and Al took us out in his dory to Tatoosh Island, off Cape Flattery. Rain a rough water. But out the island, partial clearing. Once again, loads of gulls loafing at the beach (+ 200). Pelagic ternants on the rocks. Bands of crows about. We got set up by about 16:00. Bob caught a 15 lbs King Salmon for dinner. I explored the island. Tree, Violet-green + Barn Swallows about the buildings. Apparently the Barn Swallows are having a rough time nest building because of the dry spring. Song +

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 19, 1989. Fox Sparrows about the thick salmon berry. American Goldfinches feeding in some of the grasses. Some of the gull pairs which I collected last year on the W & S end seem to have vacant territories this year. Plenty of Tufted Puffins. The Common Murre colony on W. end seems larger this year. An sub-ad Bald Eagle flew over the island, creating major panic in the gulls. June 20, 1989 Up at 0600, in blind on beach by 07:00. Can hear Winter Wrens singing in brush below cleft. Checking gull morphotypes. Seems to be quite a few intergrade gulls around - north Glaucus-wing types or similar thereto. Spent nearly entire day in blind. When darkness hit Bob Paine & the guys set up a mist net on Tote Point (S end) for Petrels. I was out on the cliffs near the Lighthouse (W), just enjoying the circling Tufted Puffins, Murres and gulls. Anyway, by about 10:30 we went out to the net and waited. Only 1 petrel (Leach's) in first hour, but then things got hot. Between 24:00 - 01:00 we caught 22 petrels (19 Leach's, 3 Fork-tailed Storm Petrels) + about 6 Cassin's Auklet. The night might not have been so good were it not for the clouds blocking the nearly full moon.

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 20, 1989 On our way back to the house we had Petrel fletting about no bibe rats. We landed the petrels we had released them. In bed by about 2:00 am. June 21, 1989 Went down to the beach to collect gulls at 08:00. Collected 7 birds on 3 shots - 3 pairs of gulls and one single. Most pairs I had tipped-out. Apparently, Bob Pair heard a Peregrine cackle after I fired the first shot. The old bird took off and flew away. I didn't even see it. Bob found a fresh-killed Rhino. Ankle - totally cleaned out by the Peregrine. As I was cutting up the gulls one ad. Bald Eagle flew over the island. Also, Black Swifts were coursing overhead. Saw several Rufous- Hummigbirds. Bob, and I, think the Tufted Puffin population has increased. The Peregrines have disappeared from Cape Flattery (said Ulrich Wilson), and in WA many pairs have failed. Still, they effect 7 young from some known copies. At least, all indications show that the Peregrines are not nesting at Cape Flattery this year. Saw an Orange-crowned Warbler in the brush. Spent the afternoon preparing the gulls. The Beach Area where the birds are from is also the landing spot, and has the old landing screen on a cliff above it. The beach connects Tatoosh I. with what they call North Island, a smaller rock. Bob

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 21, 1989 says the Peregrines like to perch on a small islet/ cliff in between North Island and the main island. The route to Strawberry Point (the island to the west of Totoosh) is also over the beach area. Strawberry can only be reached at low tide. From 24:00 - 01:00 hrs, we mist-netted petrels again. Beautiful moon rise over Cape Platting. Caught 17 Leach's Petrels & 5 Fork-tailed Petrels, as well as several Lassin' Auklets and 1 Rhinoceros Auklet. June 22, 1989 Went down to beach area to collect gulls from blind. Shot 2 pairs (OAB 511-514) on 2 shots. Then went out to Tote Point / the southern edge of Totoosh Island. Collected two singles on one shot (OAB 515, 516), but was really trying to get 4 birds on one shot. It was 2 hybrid pairs (BW/H x CW9) & BW x H). Then shot at another pair, got both, but 1/1 one bird fell in a cliff & could not be retrieved. Got its mate through (DWB 517). Then shot its 1/1 mate to 515 (518). Spent rest of day preparing gulls. Liz & Sara found an albino Pigeon Guillemote out at Tote Point. Trapped Petrels at Tote Point again from 24:00 - 01:00 (29 Leach's & 3 Fork-tailed; no Auklets.

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Field Notes Dory Bell June 23, 1989 We just packed everything up, cleaned up and moved to the beach to await our 13:00 hrs pick-up by Mike & Al in their Dune. Weather was hot & sunny. Ladd found a milk gall, which I caught & collected from Strawberry (DAB 519). Beautiful ride in to Neah Bay. Sad to leave Tutosh. I had to follow Bob Paine's group in to Seattle because my big N2 tank was getting too low. Refilled it, Bob helped me with it. The drive from Neah Bay to Seattle (via Kingston Ferry) took 15:30-20:10. I drove back to Port Angeles, spent the night. June 24, 1989 Met Jim Mott at Eagle Air Helicopters in Forks, WA at 11:20. Loaded up in his copter, and we flew out to Destruction Island. Short flight. Beautiful clear, HOT, dry. Smooth. We circled Destruction around from the SW, past the light, landed next to the pad. Off-loaded my stuff, and away he went. Expect to be picked up on Thursday morning at 09:00. Today is Saturday. Got my camp set up on the "lawn" near the Water Tower. Saw Bald Eagle as we landed. Destruction Island is rather like a long ovoid. It runs in the long axis SW -> NE. The area around the lighthouse & Foghorn (SW end), as well as the Helicopter landing pad & water tower consists of carpet-like grass & moss, kept close cropped by the innumerable small grey loblolly

Field Notes Doug Bell June 24, 1989 rabbits. But, aside from these areas, the rest of this flat, table-top like island is overgrown in thick Salmon berry & brush. The entire Northern half of the island cannot be reached from above due to this vegetation. Indeed, the same applies for the E & SW tip. It might be possible to scramble over the shore to the N end. On the W shore, mid-level, a path leads to the cliff-edge, and from here one can get down to the beach. It's possible to walk from here to the SW end and scramble back up to the forghorn on top. I did a quick survey. Counted 20 gulls on the grassy, sandy cliffs from the W Beach->N, 206 along from the cliffs from the W Beach to the forghorn, and 86 gulls on the series of 3 hilltops leading down to the sea from the forghorn. At this SE. and a series of low rocks, barely larger than the series of reefs, spread just out to the SW and parallels the hilltops. Here I counted 216 Brandt's Cormorants, on nests, and about 2x that number of Common Murre, also nesting. My immediate impression of Destruction I. is that it is the mirror-image of Tatoosh I., with Western & Western-Gull types being the majority. Off of other birds seen: flock of about 35 American crows, Song Sparrows, Winter Wrens, Swainson Thrasher (a veritable population!); the latter 3 all singing, oh, and Fox Sparrows. Pigeon Guillemots, Small flock Slant-billed Doves.

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 24, 1989 [illegible] [illegible] Counted 17 Oystercatchers on W Beach area & reefs, with 2 nests (1 chick + 3 eggs) on the beach. I set up my blind in the W beach [consists largely of heavy pebbles], and marked a weighed eggs ahead of checking morphotypes because so many nests are hatching today! What a hot day, sunny, little wind until evening. June 25, 1989 Foggy, misty morning. Went to blind at 11:30 to start checking morphotypes. Remained in blind until 17:00. Got data on 35 1/2 pairs. When I left the blind 2 older gull chicks ran from a nest near my tent. One of them even went into the surf. By the time I climbed to the top of the bluff and looked back at the beach, one chick was being killed by another gull. While back at camp from 19:10 - 19:30 the sub-ad. Bald Eagle showed up and decisively coursed around the SW end of Dextinction I with a contingent of screaming gulls & crows in tow. Went back to the blind with my parabolic & recorder. Took a chick (newly hatched) from pair 20 + placed it in the nest (36) where the chicks had run away. The adult gulls were quite upset. The male came up to the nest and picked at the chick's head, so did the female. The chick was letting out desperation calls. The pair 36 [both S/C] long called a number of times, then walked off from the nest. But then the F walked back over to the nest and sat on the chick.

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 25, 1989 However, the female was soon off it, whereupon the M came over and started hocking at it. I climbed out of the blind to rescue the bloodied chick and put it back in its original nest (20-a WA pair). Found a larger chick, what I thought to be one of the original 2, and put it in 36's nest. Left the Beach area 20:15. Weather has turned to heavy mist. About 65 crows have accumulated in a local tree to roost. I went to the bluff near the joghorn from 21:20 - 22:00 and watched the Rhinoceros Auklets come thumping into their burrows. Some came rather close. Caught one Rhino Auklet when it landed next to a fence. Beautiful bird. Heard a couple Leach's Storm Petrels around 23:00. June 26, 1989 Forgot to mention. On first day here I saw and photographed an apparent male, ad. Sea Otter sleeping in the calm water, between reef shoals. 08:10 - The Sub-ad. Bald curies past west end of island. 09:30 - An third tape recording gulls. 11:00 - Sub ad. Bald eagle flew by, tried to land on a rock but was hit by a gull. Chased away. 11:20 - Collected 3/1 3 gulls on one shot Pair 21 (DAB 520 + 521, both GW/H) and smoke of Pair 22 (DAB 522, WC). Then made mistake of trying to collect a pair with the 4/1 410 aux - only got one of them (DAB 523). Then made another mistake when I used 410 aux to get the

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 26, 1984 female of pair 22. Only dug her. She flew off to a reef. I fired w/16 G shell, whereupon she flew off to the mats & climbed up on a rock. I approached, shot again w/16 G. shell. Killed her. Waves washed her off the rock & she finally drifted in to shore (DAB 524). Spent rest of a windy but clear afternoon preparing the five gulls. During the course of the afternoon a different Bald Eagle flew by - this was a bird w/a white head and tail, but the tail had a faint, sub- terminal band of brown. This bird showed up at 3 different times over the course of the afternoon, and on the fourth time towards 20:00 it began soaring off to the east. The sky at this point was beautiful because broken clouds had moved in, and they reflected reddish lines mixed with blue patches of sky. Towards 20:00, after I had finished dinner and was sitting by the camp stove, I heard a commotion and just saw a Peregrine streak by at ground height not more than 20 ft away. Barn swallows were "chasing" it. The falcon zipped through a gap in the shrubs and out over the W bluff above my beach. I went to the bluff to search for it, but didn't see it. About 1/2 hour later, as I was coming back from the bluff, it streaked past me again, going in the opposite direction (W -> E) low over the island. Definite ad. male. About 10 min. later I saw it flapping high above the west shore of the island, headed for the SW end. It began a partial soar in the wind, coursing

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 26, 1989 back and forth around the SW and light house. By now the evening sky was brilliant, a mixture of pale blue, soft pink and dark grey clouds. The tiuval Peregrine was the epitomy of a Peregrine, his form coursing in the mind. After about 1 minute he disappeared low around the SE end. He was blinded on the back, had extensive black barring on lower breast - almost thought he was an imm. the first time I saw him. His yellow feet he had dangled, claws open, while soaring. At 21:00 I went to the foghorn at SW and to enjoy the sunset. Between 21:00 - 21:30 the tiuval Peregrine appeared 3 times, each time he skimmed low over a bluff between the main island and the 3 low hills leading out to a reef. He would fly low to the water and disappear around a hillock. Must be hunting the Ba Rhino. Unlike other birds coming into the island in the evening. On another note, I get the impression that Destination Island is swarming from all the seabirds. They are literally everywhere. In all the bluffs both above and below. Other birds out here - Pelicans - one male sings every evening. Rufous - hummingbirds - around. June 27, 1989 Forgot to mention - the gulls were not in the least upset by the Peregrine. On the contrary; they even soared with it. 08:00 - 2 sub-ad. Bald Eagles showed up. Moved about the E side of the island. Soared together for a while. Then one landed on the

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 27, 1989 eastern side. Went to SW Bluffs to note morphotype, as well as the SE Rocky Landing. Appear to be more hybrids on SW Bluffs (grassy knoll, exposed humours of rabbits & auks), more Westerns on the Rocky landing area. Went to blind on Pebble Beach at 14:00 to collect gulls. Found female dead next to territory 18 (DAB 525), she must have been wounded yesterday and succumbed today. Then tried to shoot birds off nest 23 & 30. Had to me two shots (DAB 526-527). Then collected a single bird off a 2 egg nest up on the island proper - off the "fossil fuel storage" bin! (DAB 528). Weather has been mixed today, rain in the morning, partial clearing in the afternoon, then more rain. The sunset was calm, broken clouds. Absolutely gorgeous. Sat near the Foghorn (SW end) to watch the Rhino. Aukslets come in. Huge flocks coursing over the ocean to the NW, everywhere I looked with the binoculars, I could see Rhinoceros Auklet flying over the water. Add to this the profusion of Brandt's & Pelagic Cormorants, gulls, and the sea literally "teems" with wildlife. Well after sunset (about 21:30), the Rhino. Auklets begin to thump into the island. Many are carrying tinger-size silverfish. They disappear almost instantly into their burrows. Some flailed at their approach when they saw me, turned and flew back out to sea. The sunset was absolutely breathtaking - a constant

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 27, 1989 change of colors on the horizon. On my way back to the tent at 10:15 I caught a Rhinoc Auklet by hand. Beautiful white "whiskers". June 28, 1989 One other pair of guilfos meets up by the helicopter pad. This poor pair has been incessantly "worried" about my presence. The ♀ (a GW-type), and the ♂ (a GW/4), hang around the water tower, and on the ground near their nest all day. The ♀ always comes over my tent to mup-mup at me, especially when I am cutting up guilf. Of their 3 eggs, only one successfully hatched (on June 24-25), and this chick probably isn't getting what it needs. I walked over to it this morning, and it stood erect, spread its wings, and screamed at me in that chick-like staccato. Quite a defense. At 09:00 went down to Pebble Beach area to collect birds. Tried for mate to pairs 23+30, but they were gone. Tried for pair 15, but one of the pair took off + flew away wounded, fired again from tent, but missed (DAB 529). Went back to camp, tried for mate from fuel bin, but only wounded it. Then went to the Landing Area, at the SE end of Destruction Island. This is the exposed rocky area with its collapsed landing bridge + platform. Shot 8 guilfs on 7 shots (one shot took out 4 birds), missed on a couple others. Destruction I. has destroyed my shooting average. Spent rest of day, mostly in

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Field Notes Doug Bell June 28, 1989 the tent, preparing gulls. Worked from 13:00-19:30 to do 9 gulls. Rained all day, poor visibility. Sunset was not visible. Still, I went to my usual spot to watch gulls & auklets. Got very close views of 3 Rhino. Auklets as they landed and waited at their favoured right under my spot. June 29, 1989 Up at 06:30 to begin packing up camp. The weather has lifted somewhat, so I can see the mainland and even parts of the Olympics. I hope the helicopter can pick me up at 09:00. At least it's not raining while I pack the tents. Jim Mott showed up at 09:05. Off I went, probably to the delight of that one pair of gulls with their chick. We circled around Destrehan, and I got some nice shots of the island. Drove to Olympia, then Seattle. June 30, 1989 Went to Burke Museum (after dropping off the car for major left-front drive shaft repair). Met Severant Rohwer, Dennis Paulson, Chris Woods. Then went to Bob Paine's lab. Talked to him & Mimi Kochl for awhile. July 2, 1989 Came to Friday Harbor, WA on the ferry from Anacortes today. Partial rain. Saw few Rhino. Auklets, 2 Bald Eagles on the ferry ride. After getting squared away, and eating dinner, we (Maren is now with me-)

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Field Notes July 2, 1989 picked her up in Seattle), we drove out to Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse. Arrived at sunset (21:10). No Bald Eagle, no whales. Although some girls said they had seen Minkes & Orcas just before. July 3, 1989 In Friday Harbor this morning. Lots of Barns + Violet Green Swallows. At the Marine Lab: Terns w/ fledglings, House Wrens, N.W. Gulls, Kingfishers, White-crowned Sparrows, Gulls (GW). Went out in the Scoter at 14:00, headed north to Gull Rock & White Rock, both north, north-east of Flattop I. Lots of boats on the water. Too many to collect at the gull colony on Gull Rock. Actually, it seems as if fewer pairs are nesting there this year (maybe 12 pair on the NE side of Gull Rock). Oyster catchers also around. We drove across the strait to White Rock. Here, more 1/5 shots pair of gulls - all appear to be on eggs. When most boats were clear, I got out my new (used) Stevens 16-Gauge. Little rusty with my aim - 5 shots for one bird (018 & 538). Large assemblage of Harlequin Ducks on White Rock (20-25 birds). As we were waiting off the rock, a pod of Orcas moved through the strait. Several did spy-hopping, one played in help. One big daddy, couple smaller males, and assorted females. Three boats followed too closely. We were back at the lab around 16:30. [illegible]

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 4, 1989 08:45 - 11:00 - Dr the Sotter to Guille I. Overcast, some rain & wind, but the water stayed pretty calm. We drove the back way there -> around Lopez I., and the quick way home. Saw several groups (2-3) Marbled Murrelets, many Rhinos. Anhells and quites about 6 Bald Eagles in all during the trip. A few D-L Common Rats on Guille I's west south side. Collected 6 gulls (DAB 539 - 544), first shot took 2 gulls, but rest were singles and many misses. Most gulls on Guille I. appeared to be in eggs. Saw a pair of Heerman's Gulls on the Marine Lab dock. Drove out to Lime Kiln Point, San Juan I., towards evening. Heard Swainson's Thrushes, saw Rufous-sided Towhees, one & Red-tailed Hawk, Calif. Quail, and Savannah Sparrows. Forgot to mention - at 4th July parade in Friday Hbr., a pair of Violet-green Swallows had their nest of 4 young wedged between some metal plates of an ice to a store. The parents still tried to feed offspring, but often did not zoom in over the heads of all the bystanders on the sidewalk. Nice fireworks display in Friday Hbr. on the eve. We had a great view from the Marine Lab. Could hear Common Nighthawks. July 5, 1989 From 08:45 - 10:15, drove in the Sotter from Friday Hbr. c San Juan Co., WA north to White Rock near Flattop I. Collected 4 birds, on 5 shots (DAB 445 - 448). Back out to Lime Kiln Point, San Juan I., for the sunset.

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Field Notes Dory Bell July 5, 1989 Sat from 20:00 - 21:30. Large Pod of Orcas came by before sunset, swimming N -> S. Two big daddy's (we ID'd them with the guide) as well as several groups of smaller Orcas and many individuals. They seem to travel spread out. Each old bull had 2-3 others with them, but many came past in 1's and 2's. In all, probably 15 orcas swam past. Quite nice. July 6, 1989 Sunny, clear. Wind picking up. We left in the Scoter at 08:30, headed for Cattle Point and possibly Smith I. When we got to Juan de Fuca Strait it looked like mesh lines. A million gill-netter out (start of salmon season?). Had to work to avoid net. Decided to cut up to Bird Rocks around Lopez I. At Bird Rocks, in the Rosario Strait between Thatcher Pass + Anacortes, we collected 5 gulls and 3 shits (048 549-553). Better average. Got a nifty hybrid, too. A long gill net was entangled around the S end of Bird Rock. I dropped Maren off on the island, and tried to free up portions of the net, but it was all too deep & extensive. Maren was able to free a small shark. Lots of seals on Bird Rock. On our way back to Friday 4hr we saw a medium-sized flock of [illegible] grey-headed

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Field Notes July 6, 1989 and whiteish-headed terns and gulls. July 7, 1989 Took ferry from Friday Harb., WA to Sidney, than on to B.C. July 8-9, 1989 In Victoria, B.C.. Ted Miller put us up at his house. Met Rob Canning (of Okanagan, B.C., and coauthor of the book "Birds of Okanagan". As usual, Victoria had lots of gulls at roof-top level. Rain on Saturday, clear on Sunday. Profusion of crows, starlings... Saw one Bald Eagle nearattle Point. Rob Canning lives at S end of Oak Bay, on the water. Beautiful view. Chain Islands protect the bay. Good gull colony on one island (visible from Oak Bay Inn). Saw long-billed Dowitcher, Killdeer, Calif. Gulls on Oak Bay shore. July 10, 1989 Drove from Victoria, B.C. to Bamfield, B.C., on Barkley Sound. Intermittent drizzle, but clearing. Sunny when we arrived in Bamfield (~4.0 hours). Just enjoyed beautiful evening on the dock: Barn Swallows nesting, feeding young. Also fledged young barn swallows. Saw one Black Swift, several other Vaux's Swift. Bald Eagles (pair + sub ad., + imm). Kingfishers, Great Blue Herons

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 10, 1989 picked up a road-killed Common Nighthawk on highway near Lake Cowichan (DAB 554). working the inlet edges. July 11, 1989 Had to drive to Port Alberni to get a firearms permit. The boat guy at Bamfield (Steve) has been very helpful. He called nearly everyone in Bamfield to ask if it is possible to get a permit in town, but no go. So off we drove to Port Alberni. Nice sunny, warm day - dusty road. Talked with the secretary of the Conservation Officer DOUG TURNER 758-3951 in Port Alberni. She called the head (C.O. in Nanaimo to ask if I needed a Hunting Licence (60'', non-resident) or just a firearms permit (10''). Turns out, I only needed the latter. Last year, Larry Johnston in Campbell River said I needed a hunting licence. July 12, 1989 Men and I went in the UBC Boston Whaler to Bceria Rocks for gull collecting. These rocks are located way up Barkley Sound. There are three main rocks, all are relatively small. Probably not more than 40-45 Glaucous-winged Gulls were nesting. All gulls appeared to be incubating. Funny, but we could not entice the gulls with bread. About 200 gulls (1/2 California, 1/2 prim. GWG) loafed on the rocks. Also saw 1 Heermann's Gull, about 20 Hebrquin Ducks, and several Black Oystercatchers. 5/8 Collected 5 gulls (DAB 555-559) on 8 shots. We

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 12, 1989 had left at 09:00, returned to Bamfield by 11:00. Then went with Alan Burger's seabird class @ 13:30 on the MV Alta for a trip to Sealord Rocks. But the weather turned very windy, and we turned back because of high waves outside of Barkly Sound. Went instead back to Baeira Rocks. Along the way saw several Pelagic Cormorants, Marbled Murrelets, and Bald Eagles. Rain came in. At Baeria Rocks we saw, in addition to the species already mentioned: 3 Short-billed Dowitchers, about 15 Surfbrids, and a couple Black Turnstones. Weather was quite rainy today. July 13, 1989 at 09:30 Menen and I went in the UBC Whaler to Seabird Rocks. These rocks are in the ocean ~~~ SW of Cape Beale. Beautiful sunny day, and relatively calm ocean. Collected 2 gulls well away from the rocks (PAB 560, 561) on two shots. We could see Washington to the south (cape Flattery). A smaller-sized Grey Whale followed off us as we puttered about in the water to the lee of the rocks. Lots of sport fishermen out in boats. Rhinoseros Gullits & Marbled Murrelets on the waters. Several Tufted Puffins crossed our bow. Seabird Rocks are also rather small. But there is some grass topping what looks like a pile of boulders. Just a gorgeous day. The cliffs at Cape Beale don't look to bad. May have had Penguins at one time.

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 14, 1989 We drove from Bamfield to Port Alberni, then on to Nanaimo. Took Cristie (a Dane) with, dropped her off at the ferry. I managed to drop my specimens off at the Pacific Biol. Station in Nanaimo. Also got some liq. N2. Mr. Bill Ross was extremely helpful. He took 1 1/2 hours of his time to locate the N2. Bill is Admin. Head at the Station. We then # left Nanaimo for Tofino. Nice drive over the highway. Not bad for a Friday evening. In Tofino the Mimi Motel had no vacancy, so instead we went to The Pacific Breeze Motel (Wir Sprechten Deutsch). Mistake. Crazy place, and they woke us up at 4:00 am playing Land "Heimat Lieder" in the bar. July 15, 1989 Met Dave of Nootka Charters at the Gal. Dock. Called Red Palm up, and he agreed to take us out to Uclueft Island at around @ 13:00. Actually picked us up at 13:30. Calm, slightly overcast day. Slow, nice ride. Rod took us first to Ahous Bay, along way we saw 4 River Otter - In Ahous got a good view of a Gray Whale. Lots of Marbled Murrelets! Then in to Ucleud & Shot 5/7 5 gulls (DAB 562-566) on 7 shots. On the way back Rod took us to his boat house. 2 of his kids accompanied me [Pearl ?, + Shell ?]. Met Rod's wife Sharon. Really a unique family. They live in a large large boat.

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 15, 1989 on an island in the bay across from Tofino. They raised kids on the boat. Red is active in all sorts of things, driving for archeologists, geant type, etc. Sharon take people over to Meares Island (11.00 per person, 1.00 of which goes to the island defense fund). She earned 13.000 last year doing this. Anyway, we looked at their Kingfisher while the kids had seen smack into a windows, then Red brought us back to the dock. He charged me only $30.00 for the trip. I did up the gulls on the uel dock. Started raining towards evening. Maren and I got a room in the Meri Motel. Nice view of the water, great moonlit under a peaked A-frame roof. July 16, 1989 Stayed in Tofino today. Rained all day, cleared a bit towards evening. We hiked along Long Beach in the afternoon. About 600 Calif. Gulls were loofing on the beach, along with scattered GWG's. In the evening we sat on the dock and watched the GB Blue Heron, Bald Eagle + Crow wander past. July 17, 1989 Watched an excellent & Western Gull on the docks at Tofino this morning. He was bossing other gulls around. Drove this afternoon from Tofino to Syster River, B.C., after we had spent the morning in Tofino and talking to Dave of Nootka Charter. We saw Tiger Lillies at both Passes between Tofino & Parksville. Arrived at the University of B.C. Research Farm, which is just north of the mouth of the Syster River. Lots of Bald Eagles.

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Field Notes Jory Bell July 18, 1984 On our way in from the Farm to Campbell River this morning to contact RCMP, CO & get money. Rained last night, just clearing this morning. Sunny. On the trip back from Campbell River to the farm we counted 15 Bald Eagles. Drove out the Research Farm's road to the fields just behind the beach & mature trail. SE winds mild. Many gulls cruising low from the north over the farm. They tend to get funneled by tall trees to this point. First couple shots missed. Collected 4 gulls (D&B 467-470), but I had hit some others, but couldn't find them after they had flown way out over the water. However, we went for a walk on the beach at sunset, and found 2 fresh dead gulls, obviously my wounded birds (D&B 471-472). So in all, with 6/9 this luck, 6 gulls on 8 shots. The UBC Research Farm consists of open fields & stands of willow woods. White-crowned Sparrows, Robins, Flickers, Barn & Violet-green, Tree Swallows, Pine Siskins, Swainson's Thrushes, House Wrens, Starlings, NW Crows, Ravens, Bald Eagles all nest on the premises. On the water we observed a flock of about 40 Red-breasted Mergansers feeding. Great- blue Herons "float" by every now & then.

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Field Notes Dory Bell July 19, 1989 Out at the fields next to the Beach & Nature Trail, collecting gulls at UBC Research Farm, near mouth of the Oyster River, Vancouver Island, B.C. Weather clear, sunny, & still. Few gulls flying by. From 11:00 - 13:00 only a handful, and every time we were in range people were nearby on the trail. I'd tell people that I was collecting gulls for topic studies, and that pleased everyone. "Goat Hunting" came the reply. Wounded one gull, but it flew on to land near at the mouth of Oyster River. I chased it back & forth across the river, but could never get closer than 6' before it would flap away. Gave up. While waiting for more gulls an ad. Sharp- shinned Hawk cruised at tree-top level past me, with about 5 protesting Barn Swallows in tow. At 12:30 I saw a flash come streaking in from the north, then turn in a wide arc at head- level around behind me to rocket into some shrubs on the beach - it was a Black Merlin. Very clear - very dark bird, darker than an imm. perchire on the back. It either scared up some starlings or it was chasing a handful of them. I couldn't tell, it happened so fast. Three starlings flew out of the row of bushes, but I never # saw the merlin again. Spotted Sandpipers on the beach at low tide. Calif. gulls also moving about. Collected 5 gulls on 7 shots (DAB 573-577). 5/7

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 19, 1989 Maren counted 15 Bald Eagles at the mouth of the Oyster River today. I went back to the mouth after collecting the other gulls to search for the one wounded gull. Could not find, in spite of the extensive exposed bars at low tide. An eagle probably caught & ate it. Tonight we walked the beach along the farm from the mouth of the Oyster River north. Saw one loon, and several nighthawks coursed around us at ground level. They were almost bat-like at such a low height. Odd. Also scared up a killdeer. July 20, 1989 Finished stripping gulls at the house. Several Glaucous-winged gulls came by to investigate. I even tossed some gull meat on the roof of the neighboring house, which was gobbled up by them, although one of the gulls did not seem to like the taste. In the afternoon we drove on to Port Hardy. Met Tex & Sannie Lyon at their home on Beaver Harbor in the evening. They invited us to stay, in spite of having guests just leave. Rain off and on. July 21, 1989 I contacted the (O. [illegible] Loyd) Sunquist at Port Hardy (H: 949-6272, hm: 949-6306). Nice fellow, youngish. He made some suggestions for getting out to collect off colonies. Unfortunately, he had a boat lost week, and had been zipping around with the CalF Peregrine people, taking eyeflets for the reintroduction program down there.

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Field Notes July 21, 1989 They took 10 eaglets. Some nests had young too near fledging to take, others had 2 1/2 week old young. Wide range of ages. Most eagles were taken from the area + islands around Golden Channel. Also heard the Peregrines in the Scott Islands appear to be holding their own. Anyway, Mr. Sunquist gave me the name of a fellow in Winter Harbor to contact (Dennis Grant 86-4219), and the BC fisheries people {Greg Seward 949-6422} 7070 Shonchit; + Allister Thompson (hm 949-8210)}. I stopped by their office in the afternoon, and Mr. Seward said he thought Thompson could take me with on patrol tomorrow to collect gulls. We had another great dinner at Tex & Sannie's, after picking cherries for them, and enjoying good conversation and company. Turns out, Tex's parents were the original Lyon-family founders of Port Hardy. Rained pretty much all day today. July 22, 1989 Met Alistair Thompson at the Dept. Fisheries & Oceans office in Port Hardy @ 08:00. Nice fellow, young. (Should say, I woke 04:00 when Tex got up. Couldn't go back to sleep, so I got up @ 05:00. Beautiful sunrise over the mainland mountains. Great view from Tex's kitchen window. Tex + his friends went off fishing @ 06:00). Anyway - Alistair & I launched the Hurricane 4/70 HP Johnson outboard. Alistair did his patrol. It was very foggy just off of Port Hardy (Hardy Bay and Goldator Channel)

Field Notes July 22, 1989 By ca. 10:00 the fog began to burn off. Alistain (a Scot) was very polite, engaging the fishers in light conversation while checking them. Many seemed to know him. At 10:00 we stopped at Klavi's boat (charted by O-70). A beautiful rebuilt 1929 hakein boat. By about 11:00 we were headed further north, through the islands between Coletas Channel & Gorden Channel. Very calm, clear, sunny weather. We traveled past Christie Point (light station) and north into Queen Charlotte Strait. Many Rhinoceros Aukslets, most as individuals, on the water. We headed first for the Buckle Group (islands where CWS said 66 pair of GWG's nested in 87). When we got to the rocks, didn't see a single gull, just Bald Eagles, one on each of the 5 or so old rocks. Went north to Pine Island & Tree Islets. The Storm Rocks were also visible, guano capped, direct due north, but I saw gulls on Tree Islets, so we went there. Tree Islets had gulls in pairs, and loafers, plus a couple Bald Eagles. I would estimate 20-[illegible] pairs, at least. At my first shot [illegible] we heard the mate scream of a Peregrine Falcon -- What a thrill. The first glimpse we got was of a possible imm. (1st year?) moving towards Pine Island; then in the course of collecting gulls, an adult tinsel showed up over us screaming. The imm. falcon (a ?) following. Good view of both, but I just could not be certain if the imm. was an eyas of this species or last. It sure flew well, and didn't seem to be "young". No molt visible, however. In all, I collected 6 gulls on Tree Islets (OAB [illegible] 578-583), located near

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 22, 1989 Pine Island, in Queen Charlotte Strait, B.C.. During the shooting about 60 GWh's were scared up from the rocks. Black Oystercatchers (a pair) was also present. Alastair Thompson had to drop me off on the help-covered rocks so I could pick up a couple gulls. Fired 8 shots for 6 lunch. On the trip back we passed about 1000 northern phalaropes, feeding on the surface near a large kelp bed. The weather stayed unbelievable clear and calm. In the afternoon I did up my gulls at Tex's Sunnis. Tex had been successful fishing, so we were treated to a show of Bald eagles picking up a lunching over fish scraps off the beach. At one point, 5 eagles stood in the beach, eyeing one another over a fish head. 6/8 shots July 23, 1989 Up at 07:30. During breakfast at Tex's Sunnis we saw an eagle chase an osprey over Beaver Harbours. At mid-morning I went with Tex in his boat out on Beaver Harbour to pick up his crab pots. Three Glaucous-winged Gulls on the beach (!). Forgot to mention, for the night of July 21st, I recorded 2 GW's on Tex's beach. They were mouwing the longest time with one another, long calling, etc. I thought they were trying to pair, but at one point they started fighting, grappling, etc. Then they spent a long time

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Field Notes July 23, 1989 Kingfisher, Sunbird (few), Western Sandpiper [small flock on the beach], and even 4 Red Crossbills on Deer Island. Heard Pigeon Sinking back at Texa Sannies. Drove out to Winter Harlour from Pat Hruby. Everyone said the road was terrible, but it is actually better than the Bamfield Road. Stopped at Kains Lake along the way, saw 2 imm. & Red-tails screaming for food. Ravins were around, too. Most of the road goes thru logged areas. In fact, the only real intact areas of forest are along the road just outside of Holberg, and just before you get in to Winter Harbor. We went right to the Fish docks to ask for Dennis Grant (a Fish Buyer), who was trying to hook me up with a boat ride. He was very busy, but suggested I go talk to an old fellow at a cottage on the beach. Went there, but it didn't look too encouraging. Maren & I went back and set up camp at a beautiful spot - one of the nicest campgrounds I've ever been on. It's a "free" campground ca. 1/2 mile out of Winter Harbor. Bald Eagles, with fledged, screaming young nearby. Crows w/ fledged young everywhere. Went back to Dennis Grant, and he suggested I contact Michael Moore, @ Moore logging. Their operation is near the campground. Went over & met Michael, a very friendly chap. Lives in a custom house with his wife (from Paris). He agreed

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Field Notes Doug Bell July 23, 1989 to take me out tomorrow @ 11:00. Beautiful sunset and evening camped on the east shore of Winter Harbor. I managed to record several Swainson's Thrushes. Belted Kingfishers hunting out on the water. A few Calif. Gulls, Great-Blue Herons, Rufous Hummingbirds about. Chestnut-backed Chickadee families foraging thru the trees. Winter Wrens also around the campground. Beautiful weather. July 24, 1989 Had breakfast at the only restaurant in town. Sawer Wilson's Warbler foraging near the restaurant. Common Loon called several times last night from the water. Met Michael at the fish farm at 11:00. While we were talking the crows foraging on the mud flats jumped up squawking, as did a group of 5 Calif. Gulls. Out of nowhere zoomed an ad. Tufted Puffine. He obviously zipped up the Winter Harbor inlet, heading north, and flew low over the fish pens to chase up whatever was on the mud flats. He zoomed up from a low altitude and made a few shallow stoops at the crows, not in earnest. Then he was gone. So Michael took the visiting lady from Paris, his son, a woman and I in the boat. We went down past Winter Harbor out into Quatsino Sound, towards Gillam Islands. Gillam Islands are a series of rocks, rather large & steep, at SE side of Quatsino Sound. One island is quite

Field Note Doug Bell July 24, 1989 large and partially forested. The weather was clear, sunny + calm most of the day. Water was smooth, and not until we reached the islands did a mild swell appear. Michael said the Gillam Islands are almost always exposed to a large swell and open ocean. There were lots of loafing gulls about, both sub.ad., imm. Calif + G.W. The more rocky portions of the island had gulls evenly spaced around, and, as the CWS determined in 1987, there probably are c. 650 pairs of Glaucous wings. But also at least 1,000 - 1,500 loafing gulls. I collected 8 gulls (584-591) on 8 gull/12 shots. 12 shots. The weather was just beautiful. On our return to the fish farm we saw Rhino. Anklets + Tufted Puffins, as well as Bald Eagles. I was surprised at how open Quatsino Sound is. It is wide in a N-S direction, but relatively shallower and exposed to the ocean. Back at the camp I prepared the gulls. We brought a 4/16 salmon from Michael, and cooked it over the barbecue along with baked potatoes. Delicious dinner. July 25, 1989 Drove back to Port Hardy, then down to Campbell River, BC. Picked up gulls at both places. July 26, 1989 Went to Vancouver via the ferry at Nanaimo. Picked up gulls at Nanaimo. On the ferry out of Departure Bay, saw gull chicks on one of the rocky islands off Nanaimo. Chicks were almost

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Field Notes July 26, 1989 34 the size of adults, good sized Currant colony too. Lots of CWG's in Vancouver. Stayed at USC married student housing. Phillip T. and Claudia Beavers w/ children also running a bed & breakfast. Beautiful morning. July 27, 1989 Spent day running around Vancouver, getting gulls + crab disposed of, buying liq. N2, etc. July 28, 1989 Spent first part of day running around Vancouver, getting air-freight stuff off. Had to go to 2 diff. people before I found someone who could fill out my liq. N2 "dangerous goods" shipping form. Saw Naomi off at the airport. Flew to Sandspit, Queen Charlotte Is. Beautiful flight, night over Campbell River & Mitlenatch F. But more cloudy north. Nice view of central S. Morelsy coast as we landed. Met David Putterill @ Sandspit airport. Beautiful clear, sunny, warm day.

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Field Notes July 30, 1984 Left Sandspit in Dave's boat @ 11:30, but after we rounded the point and passed the airport the motor overheated (New Johnson 45 hp). Needed to get a lower pitch propeller, so returned to Sandspit. Left port at 15:00. Wind is to SE, but waves not bad. Motored down past Gray Bay to Cumshewa Island, where I collected 6 gulls (OAB-592-598). In all, about 60 GW's on Cumshewa I., small flock of loafers and about 25 Calif. Gulls. As we approached the island we began to see more birdlife - Rhino Auklet, 7 Murrelets, + Cassin's Auklet. Looked like just a handful of GW's were "spaced" on territory, but after I started shooting, & quite a few birds got up. Cumshewa I. is all large square rocks piled up. Surprisingly, I got 5 gulls off good patches! Still on eggs? Didn't see any chicks. Large kelp beds nearby, Oystercatchers on the rocks, too. We then headed past Cumshewa Island around Louise Island to Louise Narrows, where we stayed at a Fisheries Cabin. Beautiful place. Bald Eagles (young legging), Gulls, Ravens, Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Kingfisher, Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Moss carpeted creek. To the cabin is thru Carmichael Passage, right where Louise Narrows are located on the map. Northern Sea Lion ~~ Southern Sea Lion swam past. The crows arrived just before sunset, ca. 150, then left after

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Field Notes July 30, 1989 sunset. Mark & Jan Walsh + daughter + friend arrived on their way to Windy Bay. Motor trouble, but Dave fixed it. They camped at the cabin. Rained all night. Mouse hopped in the milk carton, swam around for quite awhile. July 31, 1989 Foggy morning, just looks like it might clear. We didn't get off until ca. 12:30. The fog turned into a light mist, then rain. Beautiful drive out Salmon Inlet, saw about 4 Bald Eagles. & Salmon Inlet runs between Louise & Talunkwan Island. Dave said he had helped log Talunkwan I. back in the early 70's. It is now nearly completely denuded (those were the days without any regulations for road placement, slopes, etc.). Arrived at Kingsway Rock at the outlet of Salmon Inlet to Lasheck Bay. Pretty rock - lots of greenery: wild strawberries, a type of bluebell flower, and an orangeish flower. Kingsway Rock was quite variable in terrain, with many sizes of rocks, and several pools of fresh water. Roughly 50 Pigeon Guillemots were in various places, one flock of 20 on one spot. Ca. 40 pairs of Humerus-wings were scattered about the rock. Found 1 nest w/ 1 egg, and an occasional empty nest. Gull nests are widely spaced. Of all the adult gulls, saw only about 6 fledged chicks. Found 2 freshly eaten chicks - one gets the impression that the eagles are cleaning them up. We decided to collect from land. I was able to shoot 6 gulls on 5 shots, just used another 2 shots to

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Field Notes July 31, 1989 finish off wounded hawks in the drain (DAB 598-603). other birds seen at Kingsway Rock: Oystercatchers (few), Harlequin Ducks (2), imm. Pelagic Cormorants (6). We then headed across Laakeak Bay, well south of Reef Island, to the Lost Islands, a group of trees + bare small islands ca. 3mi NE of Kunga Island and Lyell Island. An imm. Bald eagle was sitting on a snag @ Lost Islands. I collected four gulls (DAB 604- 607) at the Lost Islands: ca. 30 birds total. Half-grown chicks were visible on the bare rocks east of the large tree island. These chicks were definitely younger than those of Kingsway Rock. We then headed south, past Fillies Point (an Ancient Manuf. colony) on Lyell Island, past Tan Islets & Windy Bay to Muckesian Island. We noticed in this a narrow entrance into a beautiful lagoon. Extremely narrow entrance, Dave had to gun the boat and shoot the tidal flow. Sharp left turn past the entrance. The lagoon harbours the old homestead of Adrianne & Remy Geigy- . We set up in their guest cabin. Evidence of where their house that was moved, garden greenhouse still there. Cut shrines from the garden, even though it hadn't been tended for 2 years. Ravens, Great-blue Heron, Kingfishers, Chestnut- backed Chickadees. Worked on the gulls from 17:00 - 21:30, except for a dinner break of fresh-smoked salmon.

Field Notes Doug Bell August 1, 1989 Up at 08:45*. Mark, daughter Lorraine & friend Civa came by. While finishing the gulls at my workbench heard a couple Red Crossbills fly by. Winter when scurrying about the brush. Saw a black rat in the cabin, since fellow who danced on our heads last night. We went out looking for gulls ca. 13:30. First to Agglomerate Rocks (no gulls), then north to Far Islets. Lots of Pigeon Guillemots along the way. Saw 2 down on one of the outermost rocks (no fledge out there). Gulls were in one of the innermost rocks of the Far Islets, rather close to Windy Bay. I estimated ca. 40 adl gulls, and <10 fledged chicks. Collected 5 gulls (018 602-612). 5g/3.hots We drove back to Murcheson I., where I worked at the gulls. Saw a Hermit Thrush at camp. At ~ 17:00 we went over to Windy Bay, met Haida Guardin's Wes & Brubby, as well as Makai group. Had delicious stew in the longhouse. Watched eagles ravens picking scraps from the beach. Was talked of Penguins, too. We left at about ~ 22:30. Beautiful ride back. calm, overcast. Magical scenery. We passed about 4 gull chicks on the water, and a group of about 13 adl gulls. The motor kept conking out on the water. Overheat, a help problems. To get back into Murcheson Lagoon Dave had to cut the motor and let us drift thru the entrance. Low, incoming tide. The oars would strike phosphorescent bed tracks. Beautiful. We lunched the boat good on a rock.

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 2, 1984 Waked up the gulls + mings for most of the morning + early afternoon. Weather mostly sunny, some mistal clouds. We left the lagoon at Murchison Island around 16:30. We circled the outside of Murchison, over past Hot Springs Island and came around the SE point of Ramsey Island into Juan Perez Sound. Nice cliffs on SW side of Ramsey Island. The boat motor cut off in the sand at mid-way point. Turns out, it was a clogged fuel filter. We pressed on thru Burnaby Strait + Narrows, meaning thru rocks in a "river" of salt water. Then out Skincuttle Inlet, to the south of which the abandoned Vedway Iron Mine near Jedway Bay on Mnersly I. was visible. We continued south past Ikeda Mt. + Goodwin Pt., going thru the lee side of Rankine Islands across Carpenter's Bay. The numbers of sealids began to increase. We skirted around Benjamin Pt. Garvin Rocks did not appear to have any gulls on it. We entered Rose Harbor Inlet, between Mnersly I. and Knight I. The weather was calm, smooth, light overcast. Got into Rose Harbor ca. 19:00. Rose Harbor consists of a few "settlers" and their houses, placed on the old whaling station property. The station closed operating about [illegible] in the 1940's. We went to John & Susan's house - a veritable mixture of brick floors, wood walls, and greenhouse. Tremendous garden. They have 2 boys, Aaron & . Jill was visiting, as were a couple whale biologists from the Island Rose.

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Field Notes August 2, 1984 Had a great dinner of salmon and fresh vegies with salad. August 3, 1989 We planned to reach Cape St. James. Dave, John (from Rose Hill) and I left in the boat from Rose Hill heading down the east side of Knight Island. It was clear & windy, but the station at the Cape reported 0.8 mi visibility. We passed to the lee of High I., then to the outside of Rairy Islands, where a substantial number of GW Gulls were in residence (ca 50). At the peninsula between Rairy Is. & Gull Inlet, I saw an ad. Peregrine stooping on something in the water. I shouted, so we dashed over. As we approached 2 young of the year launched off some trees, and one was chasing & dived at the ad. falcon bird (a tiercel), the other flew almost bestial- like off over the rocks of the peninsula. The ad. gave up stooping, circled back and landed in a snag on the trees rocks above us. Beautiful dark, thin tiercel. It stood very straight. We dropped John off at the rocks below for him to pick some goose-neck barnacles. The tiercel ad. flew over to another snag, and soon thereafter an imm. falcon headed over our heads. This point doesn't have any substantial cliffs on it, although there is a steeper cliff about ½ mi. S. We continued on our way, but the fog was getting thicker. Nice gull rock at Lyman Point (Lyman Point Inlet), with nesting GW's, Tufted Puffins also Pelagic Cormorants resting. Passing Ludama Bay

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Field Notes August 3, 1989 the birdlife really increased. Whole flocks of Tufted Puffins, Ancient Murrelets, Pigeon Guillemots, Cormorants courying [illegible] low over the water. Even saw several Sooty Shearwater. A really thick fog bank hung over Annes Point, and when we entered it we could go no further. We turned around and headed back north. Stopped off at Rainy Islands, where I was put ashore with John. Saw a Peregrine sitting up in a way [illegible], but it was pretty far away, and I couldn't tell if it was an adult or not. I then collected 6 glaucous- wings (OAB 613-618) on 6 shots (1 double, 1 miss). No chicks were visible on the island. On one of the other rocks a Bald Eagles nest contained 2 young, still a way from fledging. We returned to Rose Harber. The weather worsened. I prepared the skiffs. Saw Song Sparrows in the garden. Kingfishers working the harbor. Around 17:00 Dave and I hopped in the boat and went to Anthony I. to see the Hood's merganser remains of Ninstints. We went out the Houston Stewart Channel, past Flatrock I. (with many gulls > 100 pc). The fog was thick, so we navigated with compass. Arrived at Ninstints. Very awe inspiring. The native let us on even though I had forgotten my permit. Saw Varied Thrush, very dark Fox Sparrows, Thousands Warblers and deer on the island. Also Winter Wren + Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Upon returning to Rose Harber, we found Ron Hooper & Bob Redhead of the new Swift

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 3, 1989 Meresby National Park Reserve having dinner with Jim Sue & John, as well as some historic people. I kept quiet until I could introduce myself to Bob Redhead. He is the one who gave me "verbal" permission at my own descretion to collect in the Park. He suggested I remain While taking a hot bath outside at 5:00 I heard Leach's Pet-tailed Storm P'track desolate. So nobody mentioned gulls that evening. Harbor August 4, 1989 again, John, Dave & I headed out east and south to attempt to circumnavigate Knight Island and get to Cape St. James. Beautiful day, clear, sunny and calm. Stopped at Cull Islet to watch the gulls, puffins and Cormorants. Some nearly fledged CW gull chicks on the islet. Probably ca. 40 birds total - Loads of seagulls again. It is really striking, it did not see nearly so much sealbird activity anywhere else on the east coast. The difference is like night and day. The southeast coast, well, the entire southern tip is teeming. Cull Islet in particular appears to have many puffins, and Loxtons Bay had "flocks" of 40-50 puffins moving about. It was so clear we could see the Ferocuard Islands at the Cape. We went past Amnis Point, and it was a straight shot to Cape St. James. The weather remained calm. We arrived around 12:30 at Cape St. James Island, ducking there and boat walking up the 1000 stairs to the meteorological station - As we were going up the stairs I saw a Peregrine soaring on its wind above the island. Also saw what looked like an Orange-crowned Warbler. At the top, we

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 4, 1989 were treated to a magnificent view of the Cape. Kerouard Islands off to the SE, St. James Island itself, and the Cape. Those islands are striking because they are mostly it is nearly devoid of trees, and the Kerouards lack all its trees. What a contrast in the Queen Charlottes. The Cape Islands resemble more the Aleutian Islands! The meteorological station is incredible - a wonderful set-up. They have big picture windows to the S, E, & W. The house is clean, comfortable, and well equipped. As we said hello to there, I saw 2 imm. Peregrines and 1 ad. coursing about the island, circling around the various high towers and spires. We were treated to fine views of them. I noticed that imm. Peals Peregrine are hard to tell from adult at certain angles from below because their breast & belly are so dark. They give the same white-tailed throated & upper breast

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Field Notes August 4, 1989 eagles made it look easy. There is a large colony of Glaucons-marged Gulls on St. James Island. They are nesting on the steep cliffs and grassy slopes, as well as broken rocks on the W, S + SE side. After tea & a manana bar, we said goodbye and went down to the boat. Saw fledged song sparrow. We motored over to the SE slope of St. James Island, and I collected 9 gulls, getting 2 in the air with 1 shot. Very weird, because I didn't see 2 in my line of fire, and each gull fell on either side of the boat? [DAB 619-627]. We then went thru the flowing narrow between St. James I. and Kerouard I., and headed up the west coast of Knight I. Good swell, and fair winds contributed to a pounding ride. loads of seabirds. Good Peregrine cliffs on all the islands, St. James SW slopes, Kerouard SW slopes. A couple good cliffs on Knight I. at I think Barber Pt. and the N. end of Gilbert Bay., possibly Bowles Pt. too. Saw several groups of Sooty Shearwaters, and large flocks or groups (20-30) of Rhinocerous Albatrols, [illegible] Guillemots, Trafied Puffins, and G&W. Gulls. Ancient Murrelts & Lessius Albatrols seem to be more scattered, as individual birds or in pairs. Off the Gordon Island, we saw 4 Killer Whales, 13, 2? & 1 mini. slowly heading SW around Bowles Pt. Back at Rose Harbor we had a late lunch 17:00. Then Dave & I left for Burnaby

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Field Notes August 4, 1989 mornings. Beautiful evening. Fine sun, some overcast. We took the same route back up. Stopped at the far Burnaby Cabin about 19:30. I got to work on the gulls. We decided to pitch a tent because of so many rats in the cabin. Saw a river otter on the way in. Deer, too. After dark saw what Owls were calling from the woods. August 5, 1989 While finishing up the gulls I had a great time listening to the odd metallic noises of the ravens. Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Hermit Thrush, & Chestnut-backed Chickadees in the woods. Even heard the scream of a Peregrine a couple times, coming from high up on the tree line of Burnaby I. as a Bald Eagle. We watched a seagull foraging in the intertidal for quite some time. We got all peeled, and dawned the boat by 13:30. Our route home [back to] Sandspit took us through Juan Perez Sound -> Darwin Sound -> Richardson Passage -> Lagoon Inlet -> Kluane Passage, past Helmet I. -> across Lusheck Bay thru Limestone Is. (where Racoon researchmen are) along out Louisa I west -> between Skedans Is. & Louisa I, across Cumsheva Inlet, around Cumsheva Head and then straight up to Sandspit. Roughest waves on the way to Sandspit. We took one wave over the bow, which drenched me & the equipment. We got in to Sandspit around 20:30. Beautiful broken

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 5, 1989 clouds and sunlight up the Skeedegate Inlet. We Got everything squared away by midnight. Then the RCMP called Dave to request his help in aiding a boat that was taking on water about 5mi. out of Copper Bay. Dave rushed down to Copper Bay, launched his boat. Apparently a 50 ft motor boat, ca. 1950, was taking on water through a spring cooling hose. Six people were on board, trailing like mad. Dave placed one rescuer on the boat, then waited. Rick came out from Queen Charlotte City (he's Coast Guard Auxiliary), and took the boat under tow ca. 04:00. Dave was up all night. August 6, 1989 Spent most of day cleaning up my gull wings. Bit of rain + sun. After dinner Dave took me to Sandspit Airport. Bought 4 white buckets of dead gulls & the liquid N2 Tank to Canadian Air Freight. It was 20:00. They said they couldn't get the tank on this flight, but I pleaded with them to do so. So they hurried, and took it. The fellow driving the pallet lift whipped around its corner, nearly spilling the tank. Anyway, I went to passenger check-in, said goodbye to Dave Patterson. While waiting to board the plane I saw them load the buckets + tank in the front cargo bay, then close everything up. What a relief! About 3 min later, the firetruck came roaring up to the plane, the pilot came

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 6, 1989 running down the stairs, and as they opened the cargo bay paper started coming out. I knew right away. They unloaded a bunch of "snoing" stuff, and then my N2 tank. It was put on the airstub. I went to security, then back to the counts. Pandamonium! I tried to convince them the tank was alright, & that they had just dumped it on its side. I asked what they were going to do with the tank, saying that it had valuable frozen specimens inside. The Canadian Air Mr., MR. Ron Ward, called, and he assured me they would try to take care of things. The pilot refused to allow the tank back on, and they even closed the plane to board by that time. They had to ask if I could still board, & eventually they dropped the cargo & ran out to the plane, waving to the pilot as I went. When the plane landed in Prince Rupert the pilot came back & apologized to me for having to refuse my tank. I appreciated his concern. At Vancouver, an Canadian agent met me, and both pilots also talked with me. I then called Dave in Burnaby (24:00) and told him of the experience. He got pretty upset at the cargo "goons" and said he would go down to the airport and straighten things out in the morning. Phillip Tolekin met me at the airport, and I stayed with Philip & Claudia at UBC.

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Field Notes August 7, 1989 Monday, today is a BC holiday. Would not get ahold of any govt people (eg to get a wildlife export permit, etc.). So, I went to the university, picked up all my specimens from various freezers. Hot & sunny day. Went to the airport & got the tank & gull buckets at 14:30. Called Alaska to arrange my trip up there. Sam Patten said he finished his Gordons work, and that most birds were dropping to the salmon spawns already. Called John Piatt to check about Middleton Island. He said I should call Brian Feddy on the island, via FAA, to see if gulls are still there. I did, leaving a message for him to call me in Seattle tonight. I headed out of Vancouver. At the border I was held up a bit while customs tracked down a F&W service officer at the county salon at 17:00 to find out what to do about my birds. I ended up filing a declaration to import wildlife. Arrived in Seattle late 19:30. Called Chris Wood, and we got my specimens into the Burke Museum's freezer. Went over to Ken & Laura's around 2100. August 8, 1989 I rented an empty big Mz tank. Sent it off to Anchorage. Ken took me to the airport. Warm, hazy day. Flew out on Alaska Airlines at 15:10. Sat on right side of the plane. We flew W out of Seattle, then N over the Olympics, up

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Field Notes August 8, 1989 Juan de Fuca straight, and N up the spine of Vancouver I. Sat on left side of plane, got good views of Protection, San Juan Is., Victoria, Campbell River, Middleton I., etc. Out over Queen Charlotte Strait the clouds obscured views. Still, the mountains of coastal BC & AK were visible. We flew right over Masset & N. Graham I. of the Queen Charlottes, but I couldn't see Langara I. Quite cloudy coming into Anchorage. Met John Pratt at the airport, stayed with him. A strapping fellow, from Newfoundland. Went out to dinner, talked alot about the oil spill. It's been very bad. Spent 800 miles out the Prince William Sound, killing seabird all the way to the SE shores of the Alaska Peninsula. Possibly 120,000 birds recovered so far. August 9, 1989 Raining. Flew out of Anchorage to Kenai at 0700 hrs. Rain at Kenai. The FAA flight to Middleton currently postponed (@ 10:00) due to fog. No flight to Middleton at all today. At mid-day I walked out to the inlet on the edge of town. Great expanses of mud flat and marshes, but poor visibility due to rain. Lots of gulls near the fish plants - Glaucous-winged, Kettwabs, New Gulla, Herring Gulls, and I believe I saw an immn. Glaucous Gull. Common Redpolls in the spruce forests in

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Field Notes Doug Bell town, also Song Sparrows. Spent night at THE PLACE motel ca. 7 mi out of town (only 40.00/night versus 70.00 in town). August 10, 1989 Flew in a Piper 2 engined plane (like at 310) to Middleton Island in the Gulf of Alaska at noon. Beautiful flight over mountains and glaciers of the Kenai peninsula. Quite cloudy, but did get a good view of the forested islands and coast of SE shore of Kenai Peninsula. Pretty foggy rest of the way out to Middleton I. As we approached the island, it was surprised to see it was quite flat + marshy. It's surrounded by extensive reefs, and a flat marsh. Log surrounds most of the island, the center of which is an uplifted flat table, gently sloping from NE -> SW , with the steepest sandy cliffs in the SW side. We landed under a low fog celling. Saw gulls around, but not a whole lot of birds. Met Sara Lenoe and Brian Fadely from Fish & Wildlife Service. It turned out, Brian was madly collecting gulls for me, because they were scheduled to leave the island this afternoon. Brian shot 18 gulls for me this morning (DAB 628-645). We drove in 4x4's to the barracks at SW end of island, packed everything up, and went back to the airstrip to wait for our flight out. I shot 2 more gulls (DAB 646-647), then 2/3

Field Notes August 10, 1989 also waited, but no plane came - too foggy. Oh well, so much the better for me, at least. There was a fair-sized flock of White-winged Crossbills feeding on firweed seeds (ca. 25 birds). Amazing - there probably weren't more than 5 spruce trees on the whole island. The majority of the island is low grass, brush. Lots of false Lily of the Valley Cactus blooming everywhere [Merianthemum dilatatum], dwarf firweed [Epilobium latifolium], Monkey Flower [Mimulus guttatus], Spreading Woodfern [Dryopteris austriaca], Hensetal, Marshy fivefinger [Potentilla palustris], Violett (Viole sp.), Siberian aster [Aster sibiricus]. Savannah Sparrows are very abundant, plus Song & Fox Sparrows. Barn & Bank Swallows zipping over the fields. Kittiwakes (Black-legged), Pelagic Cormorants nesting on the water tanks. Ad. Bald Eagle [Brian says a pair is nesting out here]. Quite a few Glaucus-winged Gulls with fledged chicks around. Brian says 40,000 Kittiwake nests, ca. 2000 GWC nests. But most everybody has already left the islands already. Just very late nesters remain. Watched about 100 Tufted Puffins zipping over the bank nests at dusk (22:30). August 11, 1989 Spent most of day preparing gulls. After dinner I went to the NWE tip of the island. Henry

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 11, 1989 fog, wind ca. 15 knots, drizzle. Saw fair numbers (groups of 2-15) Wandering Tattlers on the rocky beach, as well as Western & Least Sandpipers, Black Oystercatchers (20), Black Turnstones (15), Whimbrell (isolated pairs in the marshy areas), Common Snipe, and 2 Curlew Sandpipers ! on the rocky beach. The long, thin decurved bill was unmistakable. They were slightly larger than Dunlin size, somewhat tannish, white base of bill, slight eye stripe and brownish cap. At the spot large flock of Pelagic Cormorants, Kittiwakes & GW Gulls. At one of the fresh water ponds on the marshy flats I saw about 15 GWG fledglings, and 2 small groups of Gadwall and Pintail Ducks. August 12, 1989 Spent most of the morning preparing stripping the gulls. When ! 20 birds took a marathon stripping session. Weather still foggy, so we couldn't get a flight out today. Towards evening I drove out to the SW end of the island, and walked down the cliffs to the shipwreck on the N shore. Heavy fog. The path down to the ship is well overgrown along the cliffs, and some areas the path is nearly a creek, with fern & arrowroot plants. On the flat marsh area between the cliffs and beach I saw Lesser Yellow- legs in marsh rivulets. The ship, a steel-hulled

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 12, 1989 wreck, run up on the reef at Middleton Island during WW II because it was overloaded with iron & was breaking up, was covered in cormorants - they outlined the entire ship. Quite eerie in the fog. Most of the cormorant nests had nearly fledged young. Pelagic Cormorants. There were still Black-legged Kittiwakes nesting on the ship (about 40 pairs), but only the nests inside the ship, along various steel beams, had young. I counted 11 nearly fledged chicks. Brian Fudely doesn't think these chicks will make it. The gulls will get them. I saw Glaucous-winged gulls moving about the ship - as if hunting. It was strange to be inside the ship, with its gaping holes & overgrown decks, with Tufted Puffin burrows, and everywhere wet, dripping water. At the stern I surprised an incoming Tufted Puffin who dropped his load-load of fish and then croaked into some pipes. I screamed after him but he escaped into a pipe. I left the ship, went over to a chair-sized piece of driftwood and sat down to watch the coming & going of seabirds. It was about 4:20pm before dusk, but it was thick fog (insolubly < 500 ft). Many Pelagic Cormorants, G/W Gulls, and Tufted Puffins coming & going. Kittiwakes as well. Surprised to see a few small numbers of Common Murres moving to land from the cliffs, as well as Rhino Auklets just barely skimming the Marsh tops as they headed out to sea. It seemed as if Puffin

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 12, 1984 and Murre were coming, Rhino Auillets were going. Wandering Tattlers were common on the beach. August 13, 1984 The word is a Twin-engine Grumman Goose (seaplane) will come in and pick us up today. First time the clouds have lifted off the island in 4 days. I drove down to the NE end to see about collecting a couple of CWC's. Passed Lapland Longspurs in large flocks on the runway. At NE Marsh, I shot one griff that looked ?, but it was ?. Gave up, even left him there in the crush, not wanting to mess with anymore specimens before the flight out. Decided to try for a Common Snipe. Had only 6 shells with me. Fired 5 shots at snipe I scared up, but didn't hit a one. While snipe hunting a Sandhill Crane came in out the sky, calling a staccato cry, circled, and moved along the island. I hurried back to the FAA compound and got my gear together. Brian, Sara and I got everything squared away and went to the runway. About 13:00 we heard the drone of the plane, and the Goose came down from about 6000 ft thru a hole in the high clouds to the SE of Middleton. In no time he was on the runway. A beautiful old plane - built ca. 1943. Tom Blue, a straight-talking fellow, old pilot, greeted us. We proceeded to load way over 600 lbs of gear onto the plane.

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 13, 1989 At first, Tom Blue thought it might not all go. But the duffle bags, etc went into the nose compartment. The cardboard & wooden boxes went into the aft compartment, and along the wall of the passenger area. Finally, 3 large propane tanks & 2 outboard motors went on. In all, the plane was pretty full. Mr. Blue asked us if we wanted to “kiss the ground” before we departed. Brian Fudly went to sit in the copilot seat, Sara Lense sat in the one next passenger seat on the left side of the craft, and I sat just in front of her on a shelf seat, just behind the cockpit’s headboard. My back faced the pilot. We shuddered down the runway at about 15:00. Long slow ascent, through the low clouds, then above them. When we were about 20 miles out to the N of Middleton Island, and at 6,600 ft altitude, I heard a loud pop”. The plane started shuddering, and the pilot through it into a 180° turn. At the same time, we were losing altitude, about 500-600 feet just in the turn. I saw the pilot working like mad to restart the now feathered left engine. To no avail. Sara, who had head phones on & could listen to the transmission, looked very scared. Her eyes “popped”, and tears began to well up. I leaned forward and held her knees. The pilot told us to don our life jackets. He had made a very good, instantaneous decision as soon as the motor went to head back to Middleton Island. He radioed in an emergency. What struck me during the flight was

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 13, 1989 his careful [illegible]. Even before the engine went, I noticed he constantly checked his levers and throttle. He never just "set back", but was constantly alert. Before take off I noticed a sign "This plane flies on one engine at altitude less than 6000' absolute maximum". Well, we were flying, but he couldn't maintain altitude. Too great a load. We kept descended descending, right on thru the clouds. Sara said we had no engines, but that wasn't so, fortunately. Nevertheless, as we came out below the clouds, Middleton was ca 5 miles away, and we had only 400' altitude. The pilot was asking Brian exactly where the runway was, including the short one. But he couldn't maintain altitude, and since the runways were up on high cliffs, he elected to drop the goose in the water. He had no choice, really. He again conferred with Brian about what spot would be best. We had no altitude left, so we essentially went down off the NE point, down the island about 1/4 mile from that point itself. The pilot had to leave the gear up, for fear of us getting stuck on a reef. We landed very well, very smooth. The ocean was calm, almost no wind or swell!! We began taping to the beach. About 300 yards off we bumped over one reef, but then we made it all the way in to a rocky beach, with the help of Brian "paddling like mad" on the left side of

Field Notes Dory Bell August 13, 1989 plunged the side with the feathered notes. As it was, it was hard enough to to steer the plane straight in. We crashed on the rocks, and then were on a rocky slope. We first piled out the passenger side, took ropes out to the 2 FAA guys waiting on shore. Sara went with me follow back to the compound. The pilot and I began the task of unloading the plane through the nose port. Quite difficult, getting gas & equipment out. We safely got everything off except for one outboard & the 3 propane tanks. Then we had to haul everything back up the beach to the landing strip. There were rumors that OAS (Office of Aviation Services) was sending out a plane this evening to pick us up. It took a while to get the gear up from the beach. We got everything squared away by 17:00. At 18:00 an Beechcraft Twin showed up - from OAS. The new pilot brought 2 winches and plenty of rope. We spent the next several hours winching the plane up with the incoming tide (we had landed at low tides). It was nearly dark when the plane was secured. It had been winched over 30ft. We then all fit in the Beechcraft (New pilot, Tom Blue, Brian, Sara & I), and took off about 22:45. Beautiful flight back, way over the clouds - clear sky - 3/4 moon + light horizon behind dark, jagged mountain peaks. Arrived in Ambroise in a. 1 hr - with all my gear & gulls. Slept at Scott Hatch's house.

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 14, 1989. Rented a car from Practical (car Rental) (Gambell St.), Anchorage ($29.50/day + $50 mi/day fee). No cars were available at the airport. Left Anchorage about 15:00, after getting my liq. N2 Tank filled, and having lunch with Brian Fodely. Drove first to Putage Glacier. Along the way I saw a Beluga Whale (at Beluga Point !?). Quite a surprise - such a white beast, slowly emerging w/ its back out of the water, proceeding in a long arch exposing most of its back, before disappearing in a sharp "dive" without once exposing its tail. The Beluga did this slow arching surfacing probably 6 times, all within the same general area, then it died. Beluga Point is at the beginning of Turnagain Arm, the inlet which proceeds nearly up to Putage Glacier. Highway 1 proceeds down and up either side of this arm. Saw Dall Sheep on the rocks just above Beluga Point. Lots of tourists stopping to see the scrappy creatures. After Putage Glacier, [illegible] and Turnagain Arm, the road goes up and then some wide mountain passes. The [illegible] country looks almost tundra-like, with snow and meadows abounding. The highway skirts the edge of a long lake ( ), then begins descending into large expansive spruce & bog flats. It parallels the course of both [illegible] Kenai and Anchor Rivers. The Spruce trees are surprisingly short & thin - many ca 15' tall, spaced. The area looks "stunted". Also, in the mountains, over 42 the spruce have grown

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Field Notes August 14, 1989 needles, and appear dead. Anyway, saw divers & occasional gulls along the river. All gulls appeared to be good GW Gulls. Arrived at Homer around 20:00. Went straight to Lanks end at the end of the spit. Saw fair numbers of Kittiwakes & GW Gulls feeding at the fish docks. Off to the S of the spit - an island was visible with a "million" white dots flying about it. That's the place I need to go! Went back to Homer, but boats all looked, and too expensive (48-70.". Drove N on HGW 1 to Anchor Point (18 mi), stayed at the lodge there (30.00). Black-billed Magpies ! August 15, 1989 Got the brilliant idea to stop in at the Alaska Maritime Natl. Wildlife Refuge Hdqts. in Homer. Met Kathy Kuletz (USFWS out of Anchorage) & Debbie Carr (Volunteer), who agreed to take me out, weather permitting, on a survey run for murletts tomorrow. They've been involved in a murlellt study on Kachemak Bay all summer, funded by Exxon because of the spill. In the afternoon I went down to the docks to meet Dave Nysewander (Refuge Mgr), who was coming in on a 25' whaler (Pioneer Model) from the Barren Islands. Nice fellow, very interested in my work. He said they couldn't stay out on the Barrens because of small craft warnings. The Whaler, called the "Sandlance", has Twin 140 HP Johnson's. Damn - big motors !! Spent the evening

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Field Notes and night at the Fish & Wildlife's bunkhouse in Homer. August 16, 1989 beautiful morning + sunrise. Some clouds, but also clear & calm. Went with Debbie to another 25' Whaler (twin 120 HP Johnson), met Kathy at 06:30 at the dock. We went out & ran transect along a couple narrow S.W of Homer, hunting Marbled Murrelets & Kittitz's Murrelets. Saw more of the latter, but many of the former. Most were still very mottled, but some were getting into winter plumage. Juveniles confused matters, too. It turns out, the island S of Homer spot has about 5000 Black-legged Kittiwake nest on it, it is called Drill Island. We did not go near it today, rather, after the transect ~~ we headed back to 40 Foot rock, passing along some tree islands for forming the SW entrance to Kachemak Bay. Amazing Birdlife - 2 Parasitic ~~~~ Jaegers, several dark, swallow-like Fork-tailed Storm Petrels (in broad daylight), & large rafts of Short-tailed + Sooty Shearwater, as well as Tufted Puffins, Common Murres, Rhinoceros aulets, Black-legged Kittiwakes & Marbled Murrelets. When we got to 60 Ft. Rock, we cruised it twice. Saw about 20 nearly-fledged GW Guil chicks, & several more such chicks already on the water. Also mostly Tufted Puffins, Common Murres, and a majority of Kittiwakes

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Field Notes August 16, 1989 I collected a total of 8 GWC's (DAS 648-655) from 60 Ft. Rock, using 14 shells, but needing to shoot several gulls twice. Surprisingly plenty of GWC's appeared after I began collecting; at least 50 birds around. Weather thickened with clouds, but still calm. On our way back to Homer I saw a single Horned Puffin ! Black Oyster catchers in 60 Foot Rock, as well as Pelagic Cormorants (ca. 50 cormorants, 2 chicks still in ledges). After arriving back at Homer, I drove N out of town. Prepared the gulls at a turnout along the Anchor River. It rained the rest of the day. Many gulls passed along the river, all GWfull type. August 17, 1989 Went out with Kathy & Debbie on a survey again. This time we proceeded up Kachemak Bay. Good morning, warmter, no rain at first. Few many Marbled Murrelets, and, as we neared the large glacier on the S shore, we started seeing several Kittlitz's Murrelets - beautiful - very soft, lt. mottled brown, uniform. Lightish bellies, darkish eye spot, long flores (50-100) of mixed tern - Beld Arctic & Aleutian Terns, as well as many Kittiwakes. Also saw Pigeon Guillemots, Surf Scoter, and, as we neared Bull Rock, large flocks of Sooty & Short-tailed Shearwaters, Common Murres, Tufted

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Field Notes Dave Bell August 17, 1989 Puffins & Black-legged Kittiwakes. We circled Gull Rock - which has an unbelievable concentration of the Kittiwake, but also many GW G rest. In fact, there were at least ca. 200 GW gull chicks on & around the island. All GW Gulls looked good - all light, w/ light Prim-ary Tips. On the way back to Homer we saw one Pomarine Jaeger, and several Fork-tailed Storm Petrels, as well as more of everything else. Several Bonaparte's Gulls were at the dock area. In all, we were out from 06:30 - 10:30. Driving back into town along the spit I saw what I think were Herring Gulls, and some Pintail & Goldeneyes on Beluga Lake. Drove from Homer back to Anchorage this afternoon, evening. Stopped at one river, hiked along it for a while, saw only Fox Sparrows. Back in Anchorage I went straight to the airport, to request a ticket change. I described my situation to Alaska Airlines as desperate. They were kind enough to put me on a flight tomorrow at 17:30. [Otherwise, I'd have to wait until Aug. 23rd!]. Spent the night at John Piatt's house, along with Brian Fuseli. August 18, 1989 Spent most of the day getting my specimens packed, and shipped out on Alaska Airlines. It was easy to ship my Lq. N2 tanks - nothing

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Field Notes Doug Bell August 18, 1989 compared to Canada . 2 frozen laps & the tank was "68.00" Net load. Said goodbye to John Piatt , Scott Hatch & Brian Fadel. Flown out of Anchorage at 17:30. The flight was nearly all clouds - couldn't see much, and it got dark pretty quick. Arrived in Seattle 22:40, Ken picked me up at the airport. August 19, 1989 In Seattle, WA; at Ken & Sara's House. Some fledgling crows still about, and plenty of Starlings. High clouds. August 20, 1989 Helped Ken fix his Chrysler 6 HP outboard, then drove up to Anacortes, took Jerry to Friday Harbor to pick up my gulls. Light rain, also smoke (pulp mills) in the San Juans. Kind of sad to be back at Friday Harbor for the last time. Met Flow at dinner at the Pub - Rio. Oh ja, say 2 Bald Eagles on the side over, as well as a nest on SW corner of Shaw Island. Lots of gulls at Friday Hbr - many Bonapartes CV6 fledglings, several Herons. Many Archer Warhams in town. Caught the 20:30 ferry back to Anacortes. Dark & drizzle.

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D. A. Bell 1990 Catalogue #679-727 List of Localities

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Douglas A. Bell 1990 Catalog Mouth of Salinas River, Salinas Wildlife Area, Monterey Co., California 5 January Bodega Bay Marine Lab Reserve, Bodega Bay, Sonoma Co, California 29 January Tatoosh Island, Clallam Co., Washington 25-27 May Langara Light Station, Langara Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada 13 June Cox Island, Cloak Bay, Langara Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada 14 June Buddir Island, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 27 June

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Catalog Douglas A. Bell Mouth of Salinas River, Salinas Wildlife Area, Monterey Co., California January 5, 1990 679 Larus canus 1st winter, & ovary quiescent; wt. 315 G Complete Skeleton Stomach empty, except for sand. Tape worms in stomach, small (~1-2 mm) bumps, almost papillae-like, yellowish, all over intestine outer wall. 2 tissue nials LHKM. Moderate fat. Legs flesh colored. Base of bill flesh colored, tip black. 680 Larus argentatus ad. &; ovary quiescent; wt 1,025 G- Complete Skeleton Legs pink- 10RP 6/4; Bill- show yellow 5Y 8/3; Iris-straw yellow - 2.5Y 8/2 light flecking at base of iris; spot 5YR 4/0- light orange. Stomach contained chicken feathers. Heavy fat. LHKM - 2 tissue nials. 681 Larus californicus ad. &; testes 1.5mm &. w.t. 605 G Complete Skeleton Bill- yellow-green 7.5Y 7/2; legs: yellow-green 7.5Y 7/2, Gape - orange, bill spot - orange (5YR 7/2). Tip of bill black Eyering- black + deep maroon, iris - flecked dk. brown. 2 tissue nials - LHKM. Stomach empty except for plastic and paper. Good fat.

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Catalog Douglas A. Bell North of Salinas River, Salinas Wildlife Area, Monterey Co., Calif. January 5, 1990 complete skeleton 682 Larus californicus ad &; testes ~ 2 mm; dk brown Wt. 620 G Bill straw yellow 5Y 8/4; Spot: flame scarlet, colr 15; tip of bill black; eyering & gape- red-orange: 5YR 4/4; Iris dk brown. Legs- yellow green 7.5 Y 6/2. Heavy fat. Stomach empty except for 2 tissues w/bs LHKM complete skeleton 683 Larus californicus ad &; testes 2 mm; dk brown. Wt 760 G Bill yellow green, legs yellow green - 5Y 7/1. Bill spot faint orange; Gape- faint orange. Eyering black; Iris- dk brown. Stomach full of garbage & chicken skin. Heavy fat. 2 tissues w/bs LHKM. complete skeleton 684 Larus occidentalis 4 yrs old. &; ovary quiescent. Wt. 1,000 G- Bill 5Y 8/16 (straw yellow); Eyering- yellow 2.5 Y 7/10; Iris 10YR 7/2; Right; lt, sandy throat 10YR 5/2; Gony spot- 5YR 6/10 Bill black tipped. Legs - 5 R 6/4. Heavy fat. ? tissue w/bs Small crabs in stomach. Discarded 685 Larus occidentalis 1st yr. Wt. 1,050 G

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Catalog Douglas A. Bell 2 miles W. of Moss Landing, Monterey Bay, Monterey Co., California January 19, 1990 Complete Skeleton 686 Larus heermanni ♂ w.t. 535 G Dark iris, Orange-red eye-ring + bill; tip of bill black, legs black. Testis ~ 4 mm x 3 mm. Good Fat. Complete Skeleton 687 Larus heermanni ♀ w.t. 450 G His dh. brown; Orange-red eye-ring + bill; tip of bill + legs black. Ovary quiescent. Heavy Fat Complete Skeleton 688 Larus heermanni ♀ w.t. 455 G His ds. brown flecked on grey background; orange red [illegible] eying + bill. Tip of bill black, legs black. Heavy fat. Ovary quiescent.

Catalog Douglas A. Bell 2 miles W. Moss Landing, Monterey Bay, Monterey Co., Calif. Complete Skeleton 689 Larus canus male wt. 440 G Gape orange; eyering vermillion, iris grumpy, [illegible] & dark grey. Bill & legs star green-yellow. Testis 3x2 mm. Good Fat. Complete Skeleton 690 Larus argentatus 3rd year male [illegible] testis small; minute, wt. 1375 G Iris straw yellow; Eyering dark; Bill ivory w/ black subterminal spot. Heavy Fat. Stomach full of garbage: 73 g Complete Skeleton 691 Larus argentatus 3-4 female testis minute wt. 1300 G Iris straw yellow. Eyering dark; bill flesh-colored. Heavy fat. Stomach 1/2-filled w/ garbage: 43 g [illegible] Complete Skeleton 692 Larus argentatus Ad & Ovary quiescent wt. 1,120 G Iris lemon yellow. Eyering straw yellow. Bill fleshy-flesh-yellow. Heavy fat. Trace of orange gonad spot. Stomach full garbage: 42 g. [illegible] 1,120 G 45

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Catalog Douglas A. Bell 2 miles W. Moss Landing, Monterey Bay, Monterey Co., Calif. January 19, 1990 complete skeleton 693 Larus thayeri ovary grape-like wt. 1,080 G eyering flesh-pink; iris faded straw yellow. Bill yellow green w/ orange general spot. Heavy fat. stomach full of garbage. 38 G stomach complete skeleton 694 Larus thayeri ad & ovary grape-like wt. 915 G eyering pink + dark; iris dk. brown; dull straw yellow, orange general spot. Heavy fat. stomach empty: 28 G complete skeleton 695 Larus thayeri ad & Testes < 3 mm &. wt 1,125 G eyering pink. Iris tan w/ olive grain, dull straw yellow; orange general. Stomach 'empty': 28 G stomach Heavy fat complete skeleton 696 Larus canus. 2nd year. & ovary grape-like. wt. 405 G eyering black; iris grey w/ dk. grains, legs & bill dull yellow green. Stomach Heavy fat. Stomach 1/4 full garbage

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Catalog Douglas A. Bell 2 miles W. Moss Landing, Monterey Bay, Monterey Co., Calif. 19 January 1990 complete skeleton 697 Larus canus 1st yr. ♀ ovary quiescent wt. 395 g Dark tin, eye ring; bill flesh; tip black, legs flesh. Heavy fat. Stomach empty. complete skeleton 698 Larus occidentalis x glaucescens (hybrid)

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Catalog Douglas A. Bell Bodega Marine Lab Reserve, Bodega Bay, Sonoma Co, Calif. 29 January 1990 complete skeleton 699 Larus delawarensis ? ovary grape-like. Wt. 455 gms Bill creme, legs creme, bill w/ subterminal black band. Eye ring chocolate-red; Iris dull straw yellow. Good fat. Stomach empty except for otoliths - 2~4 mm. (2 large, 4 small). complete skeleton 700 Larus delawarensis ? ovary grape-like Wt. 465 gms Legs + bill yellow-green; Grape + eye-ring orange red, latter is darker; subterminal black band on bill. Iris straw yellow (dull) Stomach 1/2 full of bread + shell bits - from starfish ?! Fat Good. complete skeleton 701 Larus delawarensis 3 L&R Testis ca. 5 x 2 mm. Wt. 515 Legs + bill yellow-green, bill w/ subterminal dark band; Grape + eye-ring orange-red; iris bright straw yellow. Stomach contained bread, small rock + feather matter - bird smelled like garbage.

D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 703 Location: Tatoosh Island, w. Strawberry I, Date: May 25, 1990 Washington Sex: F 10ra > 0.8; 10ra > 0.6 cm; 6 ova > 0.47 cm; bulged. Wt: 910g Fat: Good Wingl: R 41.3 cm Span: 139 cm Pr L: 10- 29.0 cm 7- 27.8 cm 9- 29.0 cm 6- 25.3 cm 8- 28.3 cm 5- 22.9 cm Tail L: 15.9 cm Tarsus: L 5.77 Toes In, 4.09 Out. 5.23 Mid: 5.40 Head L: 11.83 Hal: 0.46 Bill L: 5.33 Post Nares: 3.31 Bill W: 1.23 Gape: 3.13 Bill D: Gonyx: 1.95 Ant Nares: 1.89 Post Nares: 1.78 Bivied Patches: feathered. Bill Coln UM- 2.5Y 7-10 LM- 2.5Y 7-10 Spot - #14 Eyering: 5 RP 6-6 Ludes 10 YR 8-3 Pigint: 10 YR 2-2 Fine graining lower 1/2 Legs: 5 RP 7-4 Remarks: Pair 22 Mate 704 Stomach w/ medium sized fish. P0- 10-1.

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D.A.Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens x occidentalis Foot Location: Tatoosh Island, nr. Strawberry I., Skull+ Date: May 25 1990 Washington RW Sex: OJ LT: 1.96x1.44x1.28 RT: 1.56 x 1.22 x 1.15 cm Wt: 1150g Fat: Heavy Wing length: L 41.5cm Span: 141.0 cm Pr. L.: 10- 28.7cm 7- 28.0 cm 9- 29.7 cm 6- 26.4 cm 8- 29.3 cm 5- 24.6 cm Tail L.: 16.8 cm Tarsus: R 5.95 Toes In: 4.21 Out: 5.43 Mid: 5.52 HeadL: 12.83 Hal: 0.67 Bill L: 5.91 Post Nares: 3.61 Bill W: 1.72 Gape: 3.33 Bill D: Gonyt: 2.22 Out Nares: 2.15 Post Nares: 2.09 Brood patches: uppers downy, lower downy Bill color UM: 2.5Y7-12 LM: 2.5Y 7-12 Post: 14 Eyesnp: 5 RP6-6 + 10YR 7-4 Irides: 5 Y8-3 Pigment: 10YR 3-2 fine graining 3/4 Legs: 5RP 6-6 Remarks: Mate to 3 (Pair 22). Fish (large) in stomach. Pin Worms (Nematodes) in stomach. P° 10-1

D.A.Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens x occidentalis 705 Location: Tatoosh Island, w, Strawberry I, Date: May 25 1990 Washington Sex:♂ LT: 1.47 X 1.14 X 1.07 RT: 1.31 X 0.90 X 0.85 Wt: 1115 g Fat: Good. Wing L: R: 42.7 cm Span: 148.0 cm Pr. L: 10- 29.3 cm 7- 28.4 cm 9- 29.7 cm 6- 27.0 cm 8- 29.5 cm 5- 25.0 cm Tail L.: 17.3 cm Tarsus: R. 6.52 Toes In: 4.54 out: 5.66 Mid: 5.70 HeadL: 13.11 cm Hal: 0.50 Bill L: 5.85cm Post Nares: 3.86cm Bill W: 1.42 cm Gape: 3.68 cm Bill D: Grays: 2.18cm ant Nares: 2.14 Post Nares: 2.00 Brood patches: defathering Bill Color: UM 2.5Y 7-10 LM: 2.5Y 7-12 Spot: 14 subterminal black spots Eyernif: 10 YR 8-2 Irides: 10 YR 8-2 Tipment: 10 YR 2-2 fine graining full Legs: 10 RD 6-4 Remarks: Male 706 Stomach empty. P° 10-1. Pair 21

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D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens x occidentalis 706 Location : Tatoosh Island, nr Strawberry I; Sex: f 6 ova > 0.50 cm. Wt : 850g Fat: Good Wing L : R 41.9cm Span: 139.5 cm Pr. L 10- 29.3 cm 7- 27.4 cm 9- 29.6 cm 6- 26.0 cm 8- 28.9 cm 5- 24.1 cm TailL : 15.2 cm Tarsus :R. 5.64 Toes ln: 4.31 Out.: 5.20 Hid: 5.54 HeadL : 11.69 cm Head: 0.59 Bill L : 5.22 cm Post Nares: 3.34 cm Bill W : 1.27 cm Gape: 3.04 cm Bill D : Gouys : 1.59 cm Ant Nares: 1.91 Post Nares: 1.80 Broodpaddes : small upper downy lower quash-size skin Bill color UM: 5Y7-10 LM: 5Y7-10 hpot: 15 Eye ring : 5 RP 6-4 Irides : 10R 8-2 Pigment : 10 YR 2-2 Fine graining lower 3/4 Leys : 5 RP 6-4 Remarks : make 705 Stomach empty. P' 10-1. Pair 21

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GW 71 D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 707 Location: Tatoosh Island, nr. Strawberry I., Shed + Date: May 26 1990 Washington RW Sex: 0? LT: 1.79 x 1.08 x 0.95 RT 1.21 x 0.87 x 0.87 Wt: 1200g Fat: Good. WingL: L 41.3cm Span: 140.5cm Pr. L 10-28 cm 7- 27.0 cm 9- 28.7 cm 6- 25.0 cm 8- 28.2 cm 5- 23.5 cm Tail L: 16.3 cm Tarsus: L 6.42 ToesIn: 4.47 Out: 5.78 Mid: 6.03 HeadL: 13.17 Hal: 0.48 Bill L: 6.23 Rost Nares: 3.95 Bill W: 1.30 Gape: 3.35 Bill D Gouys: 2.23 Out Nares: 2.18 Post Nares: 1.98 Brood patches: 3 Bill color UM: 2.5Y7-10 LM: 2.5Y7-10 Spot: 14 Eyering: 5RP6-4 Irides: 5YB-4 Pigment: 10 YR 3/1 fine graining lower 1/2 Legs: 10 RP 6-4 Remarks: Mate of 708 (Pair 21 - Tent L #2) Stomach empty - threw up fish when shot. No 10-2.

(1/2) + Test - 15 (if) Remotes: Make 9 for (Part 3, Test 1 * 2) 20W x 1.67 = 33.4W (max) Pipework: 10 YR 8-1 [see diagram below] 1/2" - 10 R.P. 6-4 Inlets: + 9/8": Pipe 6-4 Pipe Connector: OM 527530 1x 32Y-10 32Y-10 25Y-10 Pneumatic Buttons: 3 Bull D. Cams: 3,22 1/8" and Bull H.: 1 3/4" Ball J.: 6 5/8 Base: 3 1/2 Cage: 2 1/2 Pole: 2 3/4 Frame: 3 1/2 Footed: 2 1/2 Tie L.: 16 3/4 in 8 - 52.5 cm 9 - 58.5 cm 10 - 58 cm - 37.0 cm - 52.0 cm - 52.2 cm - 52.2 cm 14/2.5 cm Frame: 64.5 cm Height: 150.5 cm Top: 120.0 (see) 1/2 x 325 x 80 x 90 x 71 90 x 111 x 57 x 58 x 48 x 68 Date: 1st Feb 1980 Marked by: Part No.: [illegible] Location: [illegible]

D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens x occidentalis 708 Location: Tatoosh Island, nr. Strawberry I.; Skull + Date: May 26 1990 Washington RW Sex: ? See below; + 4 mea > 0.50 cm &. Wt: 1165 g Fat: Heavy Wiing L: L 41.0 cm Span: 139.0 cm Pr. L: 10- 29.4 cm 7- 27.6 cm 9- 30.0 cm 6- 26.1 cm 8- 29.6 cm 5- 24.5 cm Tail: 16.5 cm Tarsus: L 5.85 Toes in: [illegible] out: 5.22 Mid: 5.22 HeadL: 11.98 cm Tail: 0.48 Bill L: 5.16 cm post Nares: 3.33 Bill W: 1.32 cm Gape: 3.17 Bill D: Gouys: 1.98 ant Nares: 1.91 post Nares: 1.69 Broodpatches: 3 Bill color UM: 10YR 7-10 LM: 10YR 7-12 Spot: 14 Eyering: 5 RP 5-6 + 10YR 7-4 Irides: & 5Y8-4 Pigment: 10 YR 2-1 dark, blotchy lower 1/4 Legs: 10 RP 5-4 Remarks: Mate of 707 (Pair 21 - Tent #2) On 1 egg nest - ( ); & unshelled egg in oviduct; + 1 yolk 2.12 cm &. Fish meal in stomach. Po 10-2. Tape worms in body.

D.A. Bell Catalog GW/4 Larus glaucescens x occidentalis 709 Location: Tatoosh I., w. Beach Date: 27 May 1990 Washington Sex: ♀ 2 large ova; >1.5 cm b Wt: 1,075 g Fat: Good Winglength 40.6 (L) Span: 138 cm Pr. L. 10- 28.1 w 7- 27.6 9- 29.3 " 6- 26 8- 29.0 " 5- 24.5 Tail: /6.4 Tarsus: 5.92 (L) Tors l.u: 4.34 Out: 5.43 Mid: 5.63 Keatd L 12.17 Hal: 0.46 Bill L 5.55 Post Nares: 3.40 Bill W 1.20 Gape: 2.75 Bill D: Gourys: 2.05 ant Nares: 1.98 post Nares: 1.80 Broodpatches: 3 Bill color UM: 5Y 7/10 LM: 5Y 7/10 Spot: 14 eyernig: 5RP 5/6 + 10YR 8/2 PF-L Irides: 5Y 8/2 G Pigment: 10YR 7/2 D G ½ Legs: 10RP 5/4 Remarks shot off territory Mkt of 710 Stomach empty. P° 10-2

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D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens x occidentalis 710 Location: Tatoosh I., nr. Beach Washington Date: 27 May 1990 Sex: ♂ Testes large, N.E. Wt: 1,240 G Fat: Moderate WingL: 44.9 (R) Span: 151.0 cm Pr. L: 10-31 7-30.1 9-31.7 6-28.4 8-31.2 5-26.5 Tail L: 18.0 Tarsus: 6.55 (R) Toes In: 4.31 Out: 5.68 Hind: 5.91 Head L: 13.48 Tail: 0.60 Bill L: 6.17 Post Naris: 3.93 Bill W: 1.39 Gape: 3.51 Bill D: Groups: 2.27 ant Naris: 2.12 post Naris: 1.99 Brood patches 3 Bill colors: UM: 2.5Y 7/10 LM: 2.5Y 7/10 Spot: 14 Eyering: 5RP 5/4 RD Irides: 5Y 8/2 G Pigment: 10 YR 3/3 MBF Leys: 10 RP 6/1 Removes: Shot off territory Mate of 709 Tape worms in intestines Fish in stomach. P.O 10-1

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D.A. Bell Catalog Larus occidentalis x glaucescens 711 Location: Tatoosh I., nr Toad Point Washington Date : 27 May 1990 Sex : ♀ Egg (1cm?) in oviduct; 2 other over >0.70 cm. Wt: 1,130 G Fat: Heavy Wing Length: 40.2 (L) Span: 137.0 mm Pr. L: 10- 28.2 W 7- 26.7 W 9- 28.6 " 6- 26 " 8- 28 " 5- 23.7 " Tail L: 15.8 cm Tarsus: 6.01 (R) Tars Lu: 4.53 Out: 5.66 Mid: 5.91 Head L: 12.33 Tail: 0.56 Bill L: 5.74 post Nores: 3.61 Bill W: 1.23 Gape: 2.90 Bill D: Groups: 1.98 ant Nores: 1.89 post Nores: 1.73 Brood patches: 3 - quarter sized. Bill Color UM: 2.5 Y 7/12 LM: 2.5 Y 7/12 Spot: 14 Eyes mg: 5 RP 7/4 + 10 YR 7/10 (lower) PY-M Irides: 5Y 8/3 G Pigment: 10 YR 2/1 OB 4/2 Leys: 10 RP 5/4 Remarks: Shut on territory Fish in stomach. 10° 10-1

D.A. Bell Catalog H Larus glaucescens x occidentalis 712 Location: Tatoosh I., nr. Toad Point Date: 27 May 1990 Washington sex: ♀ Testes enlarged, NE. Wt: 1,320 g Fat: Good Wing L: 44.9 (L) Span: 149 cm Pr. L: 10- 31.3 w 7- 30.1 9- 31.8 " 6- 28.6 8- 31.5 " 5- 26.1 Tail L: 17.4 cm Tarsus: 6.55 (L) Toes In: 4.82 Out: 5.91 Mid: 6.19 Head L: 13.79 Hal: 0.67 Bill L: 5.99 Post Nares: 3.59 Bill W: 1.28 Gape: 3.40 Bill D: Gourps: 2.08 ant Nares: 2.01 Post Nares: 1.91 Brood patches: Downy Bill color: UM: 5Y 8/8 LM. 5Y 8/8 Spot: 15 Eycrimig: 5RP 6/2 x 5Y 8/8 (oom.) PY-L Irides: (10YR 2/4 DEF) 5Y 8/1 G Pigment ← Legs: 5RP 7/4 Remarks: Shot on territory. Medium Fish in stomach. P° 10-1

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L9 D.A. Bell Catalog 172533 Larus glaucescens 713 Location Langara Light Station, Langara Island, Queen Skin Date 13 June 1980 Only Sex ♀ Sova > 0.45 cm &; 3ova > 0.60 cm &; 4ova > 0.40 cm &; 5ova > 0.20 cm & WT. 935 g Fat Moderate Wing L 41 (L) Span: Pe L- 10- 29 7- 27.2 9- 29.4 6- 26.0 8- 28 5- 24.1 Twd L' 16.7 Tarons: 5.91 Tow, fn - 4.22 Mld - 5.67 Out- 5.48 Head L' 12.71 Hal 0.52 Bell L' 5.86 Post Nares 3.66 Bill W. 1.22 Cape: 3.00 Bill D. Geoga - 1.95 Ant Nares 1.84 Post Nares- 1.77 Beakpatches 3 Bill Colr UM 2.5Y 7/12 LM 2.5Y 7/10 SPAT 14 Eyering: 5RP 4/4 P-D Anulus 5Y 8/2 = G Payment 10YR 3/1 DGF Legs 10RP 5/4 Rembr Shot off 3 egg nest. From pair #7. No tissue taken, no skeleton saved. Stomach empty.

D.A. Bell Catalog Lg Larus glaucescens 714 Location: Langara Light Station, Langara Island. Date: 13 June 1996 Left wing + skull Sex: & LT: 1.72 x 1.59 x 1.40 RT: 1.37 x 1.11 x 0.94 cm Wt: 1,235 G Fat: Good Wing: 42.7 (R) Span: 145 cm Pr 1 10- 29.7 7- 28.7 9- 30.4 6- 27.2 8- 30.4 5- 25.1 Tail: 17.5 cm Tarsu: 6.27 (L) Toes In - 4.55 Mid - 5.94 Out: 5.70 Head L: 13.17 Itl: 0.64 Bill L: 6.13 Post Nares: 3.55 Bill W: 1.42 Cape: 3.55 Bill D- Gony - 2.17 Ant Nares: 2.12 Post Nares: 2.02 Good feathers: 3 Bill blw: UM - 2.5 Y 7/10 LM - 2.5 Y 7/10 Spot - 14 Eyerin: 5 R P 5/4 P-D Lider: 5 Y 8/2 - G Pigint: 10 Y R 3/2 DGF Legs: 10 R P 6/4 Remarks: Shot off colony. Left wing + right primaries saved only. Stomach / small (3") sand lens.

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L9 D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 715 location. Cox Island, Cloak Bay, Langara I. Left Wing + Head Date: 14 June 1990 Set, ♀ 6 ova 20.25 cm p. Oviduct enlarged Wt: 1,035 G Fet: Moderate Wing: 42.1 (R) Span: 138 cm Pr L- 10- 29.5 7- 27.8 9- 30.2 6- 26.2 8- 29.3 5- 24.3 Tail L: 16.3 cm Tarsus. 5.57(A) Toe Ln- 4.01 Mid- 5.23 Out- 5.16 Head L- 11.89 Hal- [illegible] 0.55 Bill L- 5.37 Post Navar- 3.12 Bill W- 1.20 Gape - 2.83 Bill D- Gony- 2.01 ant Nares- 1.95 Post Nares- 1.82 Brood patches, 3 Bill Glb Um- 2.5Y 7/0 Ln- 2.5Y 7/0 Spot . 14 Eyenig. 5RP 5/6 PF-M Ardes: 5Y 8/3 G Pigint, 10YR 3/2 DGF Legs. 10RP 6/4 Remarks: Shot from boat. P° 10-4, I. Stomach empty.

D.A. Bell Catalog Lg Larus glaucescens 716 Location: Cox Island, Cloak Bay, Langara I. Left Date: 14 June 1990 Wing & Head skeleton Sex: σ LT: 1.49x0.99x0.99 RT: 1.37x0.91x0.88 cm WT: 1,250 G Fit. Moderate Wingl: 44 (R) Span: 143 cm Pr L- 10- 30.5 7- 29.2 9- 31.2 6- 27.7 8. 30.9 5- 25.6 Tail L- 17.3 Tarsus: 6.20 (R) Tars d.- 4.35 Mid- 5.77 Out- 5.72 Head L- 13.31 Hal- 0.71 Bill L 5.98 Rat Nares. 3.68 Bill W 1.36 Gape. 3.44 Bill D- Gony. 2.07 Ant. Nares. 2.00 Post Nares. 1.98 Broad Patte: 3 Bill Lth UM 2.5Y 7/10 LM 2.5Y 7/10 Sant 14 Eyesig. 5RP 4/4 P-D +5Y 8/3 Y-L Irides: 10YR 2/1 D G- Y/2 Pignt. 5Y 8/1, G Legs: 10RP 6/4 Remarks.. P° 10- 4, 2-1. Stomach 1/2 full w sand larvae. Shot from boat.

D. A. Bell Catalog Lg Larus glaucercus 717 Location: Cox Island, Cloak Bay, Langara I. Right Date: 14 June 1980 Wing + Sex: F 15 over 20.20 cm b Head skeleton Wt: 1,055G Fit: Moderate WingL: 41 (L) Span: 136.5 PR L- 10- 28.5 7- 26.7 4- 29 6- 25.2 8- 28.2 5- 23.6 Tail L- 26.2 Tarsus: 5.83 Tars dn- 4.23 Mid- 5.62 Out- 5.44 Head L- 12.27 Hal- 0.58 Bill L- 5.57 Bill ant: Nares: [illegible] 3.55 Bill W- 1.29 Gape: 2.79 Bill D- Gonyx: 1.88 ant Nares: 1.78 Post Nares: 1.70 Broad Patchy: 3 quarter-size. Bill Coln: UM- 2.5Y 3/12 LM- 2.5Y 3/12 Spot: 14 Eyering: 5 RP 6/4 - UP PY-M 2.5Y 3/10 - low, Lidies: 5 Y 8/11 - G Pigmt: 10 YR 3/1 LG 3/4 Legs: 10 R P 9/4 Remarks: Po- 10-4. Shot from front Stomach w/ fish bones + Chiton shell. Pin worms in stomach

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Lg G.A. Bell Catalog 172538 Larus glaucescens 718 Location: Cox Island, Cloak Bay, Langara I. Skin Date: 14 June 1990 Only Sex: ♀ 8 cwa > 0.20 cm p; Wt. 1,050 G Fat: good Wingl. 42.5 Span. 141 cm Pr. L- 10- 28.6 7- 26 9- 29.3 6- 25.3 8- 28.7 5- 23.4 Tail L- 16.6 Tarsus 5.67 (L) Tars dh- 4.39 Mid- 5.72 Out- 5.64 Head L- 12.36 Hd. 0.67 Bill L- 5.65 Post Nasal: 3.54 Bill W- 1.22 Cope: 2.96 Bill D- Gonyx: 1.91 ant Nasal: 1.83 Post Nasal: 1.74 Broad Patina: Bill Gln UM: 2.5Y 7/10 LM: 2.5Y 7/10 spat: 14 Eye ring 5 RP 5/4 R-D Axilla: 5Y 8/2 - G Pignt: 10 YR 2/1 OG 3/4 Legs: 10 RP 5/4 Remarks: Shot from boat. Stomach ~ 1/2 sand and lame.

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D.A.Bell Catalog Lg. Larus glaucescens 719 Location: Buldir Island, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, skeleton Alaska Date: 27 June 1990 sex: B Taster < 0.4 cm ? R.Wing Wt: 1,550 gmz Fat: Heavy WingL 46 (L) Span 154 Pe L 10-31.4 7-29.7 9-32.7 6-28.1 8-31.3 5-26.2 Tail L-17.5 Tarsus: 6.7 (L) Toes: An: 4.75 Mid. 6.49 Int. 6.39 Head L: 14.45 Hal: 0.65 Bill L: 6.42 Post Nares: 4.11 Bill W: 1.55 Gape: 3.30 Bill D. Gones: 2.30 Ant Nares: 2.21 Post Nares: 2.12 Blood Patches 3 Bill Coln Um: 2.5Y 7/10 Lm: 2.5Y 7/10 Spot: Cobr 15 Eyering: SRP 5/6 p-D Indices: 10yr 8/3 5y Pigment: 10yr 3/2 MB 3/4 Legs: 10rp 6/6 Remarks: Collected by Vernon Byrd (USF&WS). Stomach 1/4 full w medium fish bones. L & K tissue saved. P° 10-4, 2-1.

D.A.Bell Catalog 720 Laurus glaucescens Location: Buldir I., Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Date: 27 June 1990 Sex: ♀ Ova <3mm Skeleton + Wing Wt. 1,175 Feet: Geoph WingL: 43.2 (R) Span: 138 Pr.L 10-29.2 7-28.1 9-29.9 6-26.1 8-29.5 5-25.0 Tail L-16.5 TarsoL: 6.15 (L) TarsA R-4.43 Mid-5.9/Out-5.9/1 Head L: 12.91 Hal: 0.64 Bill L: 5.81 PostNares: 3.47 Bill W: 1.26 Gape: 3.03 Bill D: Gonys: 2.18 Ant Nares: 2.09 Post Nares: 1.92 Broad Patches: 3 Bill Color UM: 2.5Y 8/10 LM: 2.5Y 8/10 Spot: Color 14 Eyering: SRP 6/6 P-D Tails: 10YR 8/3 SY Pigment: 10YR 4/2 / Pigment Sparse LE ¾ Legs: 10RP 7/4 Remarks: Shot by Vernon Byrd. Remains of Storm Petrel in stomach

D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 721 Location: Buldir Island, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Date 27 June 1990 Alaska Skeleton + Sex: & L. Tarsus 1 x 0.70 x 0.35 cm RT: 0.70 x 0.50 x 0.30 cm L Wing Wt. 1,440 gm Fat: Moderate Wingl: 44.8 cm (R) Span: 148 cm PR L- 10- 30.5 7- 29.1 9- 31 6- 27.8 8- 30.5 5- 26.3 Tail L: 17.4 Tarsus: 6.41 (L) Tota de - 4.87 Med- 6.13 Out 5.99 Head L: 14.08 Hil. 0.64 Bill L: 6.33 Post Narces: 3.71 Bill W: 1.45 Gape: 3.83 Bill D. Genys - 2.27 Ant Narces - 2.23 Post Narces - 2.11 Brood Patches- 3 Bill Color UM 2.5Y 7/10 LM 2.5Y 7/10 Spd. Cdn 15. Eyering 5RP 8/2 L PF (L PY ?) Axides 10 YR 8/3 5Y Pigment 10 YR 4/2 LG 1/4 Legs: 10 RP 7/4 Remarks: Shot by Vernon Byrd. Fish matter in stomach. 1/4 full.

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D. A. Bell Catalog 722 Larus glaucescens Location: Bullard I, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Skeleton - Date: 27 June 1990 L. Wing. Sex: ♀ ova < 2mm ♂ Wt. 1,300 gms Fat Heavy Wing L 42.8 cm (L) Span 139 cm Pr L 10- 29 7- 27.8 9- 29.4 6- 25.5 8- 28.8 5- 24.6 Tail L - 15.4 cm Tarsus: 6.33 (L) Tars An 4.76 Mid. 6.34 Out. 6.21 Head L: 13.50 Hal 0.59 Bill L: 5.98 Pat Narces 3.87 Bill W: ♂ 1.32 Gape: 3.28 Bill D. Gorge - 2.13 ant Narces 2.06 Post Narces 1.79 Brood Patches: 3 Bill Coln un 2.5Y 8/12 LM 2.5Y 8/12 Spot 14 Eyering 5RR 5/6 RD Irids 10YR 8/4 SY Pigment 10YR 3/2 MG LGF Legs 10 RP 6/4 Remarks ♀ 10-3 Shot by Vernon Byrd. Big wad of fish/invert stomach in stomach (Halibut stomach?). No. This item is Cryptochiton stelleri, a gumboot chiton!

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D. A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 723 Location: Buldir I., Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Date: 27 June 1998 Sex: ♀ ova < 3mm φ Wt: 1,240 gmz Fat: Heavy WingL: 42.4 cm (L) Span: 142 Pr L 10- 29.6 7- 28.7 9- 30.2 6- 26.5 8- 29.8 5- 25.4 Tail L: 16.7 Tarsus: 6.30cm (L) Tors dh - 4.46 Mid- 5.86 Int- 5.68 Head L: 12.90 Hal . 0.62 Bill L: 5.88 Post Nares: 3.63 Bill W: 1.26 Cope: 3.64 Bill D- Gonyx - 2.02 Ant Nares: 2.01 Post Nares: 1.92 Brood Patchy: 3 Bill Glb UM - CM - Spot 14 Eyesing P-M Lides 10 YR 8/4 SY Legisl LGY4 Legs - Remarks Shot by Vernon Byrd. Stomach empty.

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D. A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 724 Location Buldir I., Rat Is. Group, Aleutian Islands, Date: 27 June 1990 Alaska Skeleton Sex: ♂ Testes < 0.50 cm Ø R.Wing Wt: 1,450 grs Fat: Good Wingl. 44.9 cm (L) Span: 146 Pr. 2- 10- 30.4 7- 29.8 9- 31.1 6- 27.9 8- 31.0 5- 26.4 Tail L: 17.7 Tarsus: 6.28 Tars dn- 4.57 Mid- [illegible] Out- 5.75 Head L: 13.85 Hal. 0.71 Bill L: 6.76 PostNares: 3.72 Bill W: 1.34 Gape: 3.19 Bill D- Gumps: 2.24 Ant Nares 2.12 Post Nares: 2.06 Broad Patches: 3 Bill Glv UM 2.5Y 7/10 LM 2.5Y 7/10 Spd 14 Eyes Gynig 5 RP 5/6 R-D Tibia: 10 YR 8(4) - 5Y Pigment 10YR 5/2 LGF (sparse!) 1/4 Legs: 10 RP 6/4 Remarks: Y° 10-4, 2-1. Shot by Vernon Byrd. Stomach empty.

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D.A. Bell Catalog Larus glaucescens 725 Location: Buldir I., Rat Island Group, Aleutan Islands, Skeleton Date: 27 June 1990 Alaska + L.Wing. Sex: ♂ Tester < 0.50cm Wt: 1,575 gms Fat. Heavy Wingsp: 44 (R) Span: 147.5 cm PR L- 10- 29.3 7- 28.4 9- 30 6- 26.6 8- 29.4 5- 25 Tail L- 16.4 Tarsus- 6.84 (L) Tars Dr- 4.79 Mid- 6.43 Ont- 6.27 Head L- 14.28 Hul- 0.81 Bill L- 6.61 Post Nares- 3.99 Bill D- Gony- 2.26 Ant Nares- 2.25 Post Nares- 2.13 Brood Patches: 3 Bill Coln Um 25Y 7/0 LM: 2.5 Y 7/0 Spot- 15 Eyering: 5 RD 6/6 M-P Lids: 10YR 8/3 SY. Pigment: 10YR 4/2 LE 1/4 (EF) Legs: 10 RP 6/4 Remarks: P°10-4 (3rd sheath) 2-1; Bill W: 1.15 Gape: 3.78 Stomach contains 1/8 fish matter.

D. A. Bell Catalog 726 Larus glaucescens Location: Buldir I., Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska Date: 27 June 1990 Sex: σ₀ Tester < 0.50 cm Wt: 1,575 gms (1,450 gms) Fat: Good Wing: 44.3 cm (R) Span: 148 cm PR L: 10- 30.2 7- 29.7 9- 30.7 6- 27.5 8- 30.2 5- 26.0 Tail L: 18.0 cm Tarsus: 6.82 cm (L) Toe Ln- 4.48 Mid- 6.02 Out. 6.03 Head L: 14.17 Hal. 0.60 Bill L: 6.62 Post Naros: 3.77 Bill W: 1.57 Gape: 4.01 Bill D- Gonys: 2.38 Ant Naros: 2.37 Post Naros: 2.16 Brood Patches: 3 Bill Glr UM- 2.5Y 8/10 LM- 2.5Y 8/10 Spot. .15 Eyering: 5RP 5/4 M-A Lids: 10yr 8/4 SY Pigment: 10yr 4/2 LBF (1/4) Legs: 10RO 6/4 Remarks: 115 gms (w/out head) Aullet in stomach. Shot by Vernon Byrd.

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D. A. Bell Catalog Lg Larus glaucescens 727 Location: Buldir Island, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands Date: 27 June 1991 Alaska Stebelfon + Sex: 8 LT 0.95 x 0.60 x 0.40 RT: 0.70 x 0.50 x 0.40 L. Wing Wt. 1,500 gms Fat Good Wingl. 45.2 (L) Span: 154 cm PR L 10 - 30.1 7 - 31.0 9 - 31 6 - 30 8 - 31.6 5 28.5 Tail L - 17.3 (few gray flecks) Tarsus - 6.56 (L) Toes - do - Mid - 6.26 Out. 6.21 Head L - 14.4 Hal - 0.51 Bill L - 6.25 Post Nares .390 Bill W - 1.44 Gape 3.31 Bill D. Gorge: 2.23 Ant Nares 2.15 Pin Nares 2.00 Brood Patches 3 Bill Gla LM 2.5Y 7/10 LM - 2.5Y 7/10 Spot .15 Eyering: SRP 4/6 P-D Indices: 10YE 8/4 SY Prigint: 10YE 4/12 LE 1/4 Lags: 10 RP 3/4 Remarks: Shot by Vernon Byrd (USF&WS). Stomach empty. 1°10-4, 2-1

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D. A. Bell 1990 Journal List of Localities California Washington British Columbia

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Field Notes Douglas A. Bell 1990 Marin Headlands, Marin Co., Calif March, April, May Mendocino Co., Humboldt Co., Calif. April, May San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, Alameda & San Francisco counties, California May, June Pine Canyon, W of Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa Co., California May Tatoosh Island, near Cape Fattery, Clallam Co., Washington 24-28 May Langara Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada 5-17 June

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 28 March 1990 At Battery Spencer, 3rd lowest bunker, closest to Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands, Marin Co., California. 10:55. Observing Peregrine Falcon eyrie from lowest bunker, looking through west-facing windows of bunker, at east-facing cliff of little cove just W of Golden Gate Bridge. The cove is formed by steep slopes dropping off precipitously from Battery Spencer. Most of the slopes (W+E) are loose rocky, strewn with eroded crevasses and having steep faces interspersed. The eyrie itself is on a relatively sheer face that rises up from the water about 130 feet. The eyrie is on an old raven nest, about 30 feet below the crest of the cliff face, in an overhang crevasse. One has a good view of the nest from the bunker, when angling the scope down about 45°. Can look right into the nest! Water grassy shelf sheer walls overhang eyrie Battery at this level, ca. 400' above water

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 28 March 1990 David Dugovic said 1st egg was laid on Sunday, March 25; and 2nd egg laid yesterday, March 26. One egg is reddish brown, typical in color, the other egg is very light, almost dirty grey. Light egg: 1st egg; 2nd egg: darker one. 10:55-11:15. Blue landed falcon (left leg) sitting on nest, not entirely covering eggs. Very attentive, watching everything flying past. Fishermen on the rocks below don't seem to bother her. 11:15 Another falcon flew by (min?). 11:16 Blue landed bird stood up, launched off the nest, but returned 't in a minute. Half-standing over both visible eggs. 11:25 - Falcon on nest gave short, disturbed heck-heck call as minn. Red-tail flew over slope. She is now fully sitting on eggs, very actively looking about, but appears somewhat more 'relaxed' now. David said the tiercel of this pair has a silver band on its Rt. leg; falcon has blue band on Lft. leg. I think he mentioned that the falcon's cure is deeper yellow than the tiercels. 11:30-11:50 - Falcon still sitting tight on eggs. 11:58 - Falcon looking intently up at something. 11:59 - Tiercel just landed on handrail of gangway around North Tower, above 1st horizontal line. 12:00 - Hech-heck heard, tiercel launched off tower and joined falcon chasing [illegible]. Red-tail. Both stopping on it, forcing it around Cove. Great news of both peregrines. The f

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Field Notes D. A. Bell 28 March 1990 flew back to N. tower, sat on hand rail. Screamed hunger, launched off bridge. The tiered mail, then returned to nest after ca. 1-2 minutes. He first plopped down on the light egg, rolled it under him, then rolled the darker egg from his right side under his body. 12:05. Falcon back on rail of N. Tower. Falcon sitting relaxed on handrail of N. Tower. S somewhat light yellow legs + cere, yellow eye patch. Clean breast, very neat barred flanks, belly spotting. Thick, wide malar, with just slight white patches behind malar, essentially breaking a clean cap from bottom of malar to back of head. i.e: Otherwise, cap would be complete. Creamy breast, w/ just a tinge of very light pink. 12:40 - Falcon looked at something I keen interest, then launched off tower. Gave couple &-chuck calls. Circled directly over limber, then over cove slopes. Went back to N Tower, but landed on rail at very top this time. Defeated, then flew off, landed on hand rail of suspension cable, 2 cables down from top of N. Tower. 12:45. Tiered still sitting tight on eggs. He's been on nest since the falcon left it to chase the Redtail at 12:00. The tiered definitely has a yellower cere than the falcon. 12:50. Falcon moved back to hand rail on N. Tower, 12:54. Falcon disappeared. 12:55. Tiered fussing with the nest. Interesting, tiercel has sat tighter on nest than female, covering & incubating

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 28 March 1990 the eggs. To recap: falcon on nest 10:55 - 12:00. Trierel on nest 12:00 - 13:10 - Trierel stood up, pushed egg further underneath him with bill. Falcon reappeared on N. tower handrail. 13:43. Trierel off nest, circled low along water, then used wind to soar up cave slope. Circled couple times in front of cave & bridge. Heard screaming. At one point he did long shallow stoop in to cliff below our old ladder. Falcon had also left tower, but reappeared on N. tower handrail. Trierel back on nest by 13:46; settled on eggs, bobbing head. 13:55. Falcon off. 14:00. Falcon spotted on grassy clump in cave below old point. She was picking at feet. Sat on clump about 3 min., then flew up to nest. & chucked, launched backs. Trierel left, falcon settled on eggs. Trierel back to bridge, then off again, headed west out over straight, then round point to Kirby Cove. 14:08. Trierel back on N. tower, handrail 4. He has a very black cap. Nearly complete 1/2 malar stripe 14:20. The 3 fishermen hiking back up ridge. They're passing along the spine of the ridge where the eggs is. The Trierel launched off the bridge & flew west, passing over the below fishermen. Falcon on nest did not seem disturbed; even dozed a bit. 14:45. End of obs. Falcon still on eggs.

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Field Notes D.A. Bell April 7, 1990 At Battery Spencer (lowest bunker); Marin Headlands, Marin Co., Calif. [West] NW of Golden Gate Bridge. 14:15 - Tiercel Peregrine incubating on nest. Weather is overcast, 100% cover; low ceiling. Fog lifted about 1 hr ago. Tiercel very attentive, looking about. Power boat races are underway on the bay, underneath Golden Gate Bridge. 100's of people on cliff at Battery Spencer, spectators everywhere, helicopters, planes, 100's boats. 14:25 - Tiercel kek-kek-kek call at Turkey Vulture, but remained tight on nest. 14:29 - Tiercel turned eggs. 15:00 - Tiercel still on eggs. No signs of falcon today - looked at bridge, but didn't see her at the usual spots. Maybe all the helicopters forced her to take refuge on a cliff. Chronology of egg laying: 1st Egg Sunday, March 25. Light-colored egg. 2nd Egg Weds., March 28. Normal colored egg. 3rd Egg Friday, March 29.

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Field Notes D. A. Bell April 8, 1990 14:00 - 14:20: at Squaw Rock, Highway 101, 10 mi. S. Hopland, CA; Mendocino Co., CA. Lots of evidence of Peregrines "in residence" on the rock. Whitewash on many places, including its shelf area where they have nested before. Maren thought she heard peregrine screaming, and I did to, when a raven flew in to the traditional stick nest at lower left corner of rock face. The raven hopped hopped onto the back of its incubating mate, appeared to feed it by regurgitation, and the mate. 17:15 - 17:45: at Redway Rocks, along Briceland Road, ca. 5 mi W of Redway, Humboldt Co., CA. Set up on bluff behind road, looking across creek towards the cliffs. After about 10 min. heard whirling screams - sounded like hungry female. Screams were coming from left series of cliff. Last year they were on the right series of cliff. Then heard male scream. Saw him fly in front of cliffs. Falcon (?) appeared at small pothole on left cliffs. When I went to switch from binos to scope, she was gone, but the tiercel continued across the cliffs, soared up above the ridge line, then powered off to the SE along the creek drainage. [illegible] Shear wall

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Field Notes D.A. Bell April 9, 1990 07:50 - 09:30 : at Goat Rock, on Benbow/Phelps Ranch, Hamblett Co., (A). Weather calm, clear, sunny. Very thin cloud cover (<40%); fog settling in the valleys like a finger of lakes. Birds singing all around: meadowlarks, little larks, Robins, Lapuli Swarings. Flickers, Downy Woodpecker, Piledted Woodpecker calling. Blue Grouse drumming. Ravens seem to be very much "at the rock". Sitting in fir tree off to the left side. A Raven's "bi-up" call frequently heard. Rooks crowing from house below rock. No real sign of peregrines at rock. At best, a minute amount of whitewash on left right inner side of the pothole. I thought I might have heard a jirail "when I first sat down at dr. post on ridge below rock - but now I rather doubt it. Red-tail Hawk screaming, Kestrel calling, but no peregrines. Pair of Ravens seem to be prospecting on the rock - hopping here & there. Checking out branches. Western Flycatcher heard. ca. 13:00 - After Todd, Luther and I had spent the morning giving shots and ear tags to about 100 cattle and calves, we drove them with horses along road past Goat Rock. It was hot & sunny. What looked like a tiercel ad. peregrine soared over from the rock, sort of interested in our commotion. He seemed to follow above the herd, before eventually culling up high enough and disappearing off to the NE.

Field Notes D.A. Bell April 9, 1990 ca. 16:30-17:30 Todd and I went to the top of Goat Rock, and set up our lines. No sign of peregrines. I rappelled down the cliff first, to the large pothole. The pothole looked very deserted. Only tracks of centipede in the sand and a few old bleached bones. No scrape, and no real "falcon" footprints". Two small patches of whitewash, both looked rather old. After I went down, I scrambled back around the rock to the top and let Todd try repelling. He did just fine. During our whole stay on the rock no peregrines appeared. 19:30 on our drive out we came upon a single Wild Turkey and ca. 20 deer near the ranch gate. April 10, 1990 Went to the Bay Bridge, SF. Boy, to collect Peregrine Falcon eggs with the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group. David Gregoire estimates the pair began hard incubation on Monday, March 26, 1990. Met Brian Walton, David Gregoire, Lee Aulman, and a host of newspaper reporters at the Cal. Trans building beneath the bridge in SF. KGO Newstalk Radio, KGO- Ch. 7 news, SF Examiner, and National Geographic were all there. We proceeded to the central cement pillar anchorages of the bridge, in the middle of the suspension portion. The falcons were in the same metal box beneath the east catwalk below the lower deck of the bridge.

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Field Notes D. A. Bell April 10, 1990 The falcons began flying about as the whole entourage made its way over the side of the bridge. They were pretty quiet, but were the most defensive I had ever seen them - making fast dives between and three guy-wires & girders to pass right before our faces. Also, they often landed on girders to watch our progress. Lee Aulman pulled 4 eggs out of the scrape. One appeared cracked, one pitted, the other 2 OK. The press got lots of good shots of the birds, and the Natl Geographic group filmed us during a couple repeat takes from different angles. Quite a circus out there. We were interviewed and photographed quite a bit. SF Examiner ran a front page story the next day. The Examiners was quite accurate concerning the pesticide and ever present problems with DDT & eggshell thinning). The evening Ch 7 news was "too positive" about the success (saw myself on TV!). If the peregrines relay, we can expect first eggs beginning April 24th. David Geiger feels the birds will lay. Update: May 4 - David thinks the birds began hard incubator on a about May 1 or 2nd. All 4 eggs hatched that were taken on April 10th). The eggs hatched Wednesday April 25, 3 hatching at the same time, one hatching later.

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Field Notes D. A. Bell May 3, 1990 At Spencer Battery, Golden Gate Natl. Rec. Area, Marin Headlands, just N. Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Co., Calif. 10:00 AM - Met Alan Fish & Alan Harper at the bunker. Came out myself with Joe T. Marshall. Alan Fish said they saw all 3 eggs in nest yesterday, May 2. We know the & laid eggs on 25, 28 & 30 March. So the eggs should be at hatching. The falcon is on the nest, facing out from the cliff. She kind of has the appearance of a broody hen: very wide, flat body. The wrists and wings almost "droop" from her body, one can see her flank & under-cover wing coverts peeking through her flanks to the tops of her wings. Her breast is very wide. This at best closing every row & then. Then she looks about at gulls, etc. It's very foggy, often hard to see the nest. She literally hasn't moved from 10:00 AM - 12:00 noon. At 12:00 she began picking at the nest rim. Did this for about 5 min. Then she sort of stood up, and tried tucking eggs under her; Saw they were pretty far up on her breast, she moved them further under her belly. Saw only 2 eggs. Then she stood up & scambled around 180°, looked cramped on the nest. Her tail was facing out, head into cliff. I missed the view of her nest, but think I saw only 2 eggs. Then just after she settled in this

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Field Notes D. A. Bell May 3, 1990 position, I looked away. Only to peek back when she had already stood up and moved back another 180° to her original position - facing out from cliff. Then she stood up and pushed eggs further under her belly. I think I saw all 3 eggs. 12:37 : ♀ stood up, moved eggs with bill. Unfortunately, I looked too late, still think I saw only 2 eggs. 13:37 : Female just hopped off the nest as I looked in. All 3 eggs in full view in "empty" nest. The ternel was on the nest w/in a minute, and settled on the eggs. No sign of hatching.

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Field Notes D.A. Bell May 6, 1990 At Treasure Island, Bnfo. Booth & Museum, just outside entrance to the naval base (gate). SF Co., CA 07:00 - Falcon sitting on catwalk (traveling apparatus) @ SE side, just E of Suspension Tower 5 (the first tower E of Central Cement Anchorage of Bridge. David Gregoire saw this bird first appear at the catwalk @ 06:37. He watched the bridge from 06:00-06:50. The bird may have eaten something at a cache. 07:12 - Walked over ~3' along catwalk (falcon), still on SE side. 07:20 - Falcon out of view, but possible head movement visible - fleeing? 07:45 - Falcon now completely visible. 08:00 - Preening. 08:40 - Falcon stretched, flapped wings, then took off. Flew under bridge to N side, and along bridge at road level to the west, at least as far as the cement anchorage. I lost sight of it. But, turned scope back to At Tower 5. Then the falcon appeared, flew up into the center portion of the grilles, east side of Tower 5, below road. About 30 secs. later another bird came out of some area. Actually looked smaller, it flew up to nearby catwalk, but would not see it. So I may have been watching the F all morning, and she just went back to nest site to relieve incubating F. 08:50: F on SE corner of N- catwalk.

Field Notes D.A. Bell May 6, 1990 Update on Golden Gate Peregrine Eryie: Yesterday (may 5), David Gregorie and helpers were at the eyrie in the afternoon. At 16:30 the inculating ♂ came off the nest and received a meadowlark (?) from the ♀. The ♂ went to the eyrie to incubate. ♀ flew to cliff, ate lark, disappeared. 10 minutes later she reappeared chasing a bird-tailed pigeon right past the eyrie, but did not get it. She flew back to the bridge, then soon was off at a gull. She harassed the gull, then chased a small passerine, catching it, she then returned to the bridge and dos cached her kill. Soon she was off at another gull, this time she pounded it into the water, (defensive screaming). Finally, at about 17:15 she went back to the eyrie to relieve the ♂ and continue incubating. Today, May 6, while talking to David over the phone he got another call saying that one of the peregrine eggs had hatched! This hatched at about 11:15 am -> approx. 37 days after "hard" incubation had begun! WOW...

Field Notes D.A. Bell May 10, 1990 11:30 - 12:30 Went to San Francisco, to meet Peregrine people from Santa Cruz. Plan was to remove Peregrine eggs. Caltrans people took us out. We went to the 1st Tower E of central cement anchorage (where egg was last time) on SF side of span (Yuba Buena I -> SF). Brian Walter - "Jeep" came along. This time Jeep and I went with Duke Chatthum (Cal Trans) across a girder to the "box" at center of tower. Crawled along the girders above water -> pretty neat. Jeep had to crawl into the box. Pulled 3 good eggs and one smashed egg. We got good views of the adults. The falcon had a soiled breast, due to yolk & sink from the broken egg. Duke got to watch the birds thru the binos. A reporter from channel 5 was there, put us on 18:00 news along w/ Lee & Gaylon Rowl, as they placed peregrine chicks in Prairie eyes at Mt. Diablo. 13:00 - 14:00 - I went to Golden Gate Bridge, sat at Battery Spencer to watch the Peregrines on cliff of Raven nest. Falcon brooded young for first 20 min, even closing her eyes every now & then. Then she left the eyrie, flew to soar. Moved over to G.G. Bridge, went into 400' vertical stoop past spot where Tiercel was sitting below the roadway. I had seen him wander

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Field Notes D.A. Bell May 10, 1990 over to below the roadway from the N. Tower, lost of sight of the falcons. About 10 min later, after getting good view of all 3 dummy young; I returned, fed young, then brooded them for remainder of observation. On my drive home I thought I caught a "glimpse" of a Peregrine on the San Rafael Bridge.

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Field Notes B. A. Bell - At Pine Canyon to check on Prairie Falcon eyrie. Dorothy (the watcher) said The adults were ignoring chicks. May 18, 1990 Pine Canyon, near Castle Rock Park, Mt. Diablo St. Park, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Betty & Bob Gallagher. Everette Utherback. -> Watchers 16:43 PM - One entry to nest, sat on edge of Pothole, looked around. Sat ca. 10 min, then flew off. 17:02 - Falcon returned to Pothole. 17:40 - Suddenly both falcons appeared. Trierel transferred rodent to ?, she then flew into the pothole, the other bird sat on a pinnacle. After a while, the bird in the pothole came out and joined the other one on the rocks. All previous observations from above watchers. 18:15 : I arrived from after saw Trierel carrying food along canyon. Heard screaming. Didn't see any activity at pothole. I then hiked up to a vantage point in a rock pile. Watched eyrie from about 19:30 to 19:20. At ? 18:45 saw ? appear at left edge of pothole. She paced calmly (has crop) for [illegible], 20 min., then looked about for 5 min, then roused, turned and walked to back of pothole out of sight - to brood young. No other activity [illegible]. I left @ 21:30. The eyrie looks OK, no other aberrant behavior noted. The Peregrine people from Santa Cruz had removed 5 prairie Falcon chicks on Wed, 5/16, and placed in 2 two week old peregrine chicks (these from eggs taken April 10th. resulted from the Bay Bridge pair). The two Prairie eyrie is in different spot this year than last. The

Mt. Diablo - Prairie Falcon eyries (according to Gary Beeman) 6 eyries 1) Mallard Ranch (1) 2) Morgan Territory (2) 2 eyries -> 4 young. 3) Devil's Slide 4) Pinos Cuyers. Gary also believes 2 pairs of Prairie Falcons are nesting on Rocky Ridge!

Field Notes D.A. Bell May 18, 1990 pothole is at the top of the middle series of major rock faces in pine canyon. The pothole is large, just below crest of rock top, sort of recessed below an overhang. Pothole ca. 5' x 6' in rectangular form. Cliff Swallows nest in top of pothole. I think this is a traditional site, which the museum has photos of. Update on Bay Bridge - On Monday, May 14th, I saw an adult Peregrine F[illegible] & turn down underneath Bay Bridge just where the cantilevered section makes a bend, on Oakland side, ca. 3/4 km from Yrba Buena I. I was headed east, on lower deck. Toth The falcon was seen on the S. side of bridge. In talking later to Dr. David Gregoire, he found it all interesting. Well, today, May 18, he talked to bridge people who saw a pair defending the first tower E of Yrba Buena. David went out then at 14:30, watched from Yrba Buena. Saw one food [illegible] transfer -> where ad. brought food to "cave-like" hole, on N face of tower, about 8-10' up from a platform and 15' below roadway. The hole is in the leg of tower. Ladder goes right past it. David saw a falcon in hole -> ad. & today fed [illegible] food from ? ?, feeding chicks, not likely. David thinks this is the mysterious Evergille pair!

Field Notes D.A. Bell May 20, 1990 Departed Berkeley about 12:30. Arrived at Squaw Rock, Mendocino Co. (Highway 101; 10 mi S Hopland) ca. 14:30. Observed rock for about 15 min. Didn't see any Peregrine Falcons, but the rock looked like it had birds in residence - lots of white-wash. The next ledge looked promising - also w/ lots of whitewash. The raven's nest has at least 2 newly-fledged young in it. Arrived at Holms, Ho. Co. about 20:15. Along Eel River. Set up scope on the Peregrine cliff. After ca. 5 min. heard screaming of a young bird! Then saw a fledgling fly across cliff face and land behind isolated clump of pines on cliff. Gorgeous brown. Roughly 3 min. later saw ad. tiercel come in high over cliff, - cutting a wedge across the sky. He soon landed on a high snag, then launched off again and went into vertical stop. Disappeared behind trees, but came out low over the Eel R., then flew up to a fir and settled on a horizontal branch. He plucked and ate a small passerine. Beautiful tiercel - very clean, white breast & fine black markings. Black head, white throat, thick cap. Spent night in Arcata, CA. May 21, 1990 Drove from Arcata Co. to Newport, OR, along 101. Heavy rains in OR! May 22, 1990 Drove from Newport, OR to Clallam Bay, WA. Weather clear. Sable at Cannon Beach, OR on nests.

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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

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Field Notes D. A. Bell May 24, 1990 with Bull & Talum after it had risen above Tatoosh I. The eagle headed off in direction of Foca Pillar on Cape Flattery. As soon as the murre were off the colony, a crow came in to investigate. No egys yet. Rained tonight, so no Petrel landing. May 25, 1990 Went into my blind set up in the draw between the main island of Tatoosh and Strawberry Island, west of Tatoosh. Strawberry can be reached at low tide, through the intertidal and draws between the two islands. My tents are set up overlooking a colony situated on a couple soundish, rocky humngs in the draw between both islands. Bulls are on territories consisting either entirely of smooth rock, or some rock/low grass patches, and some driftwood/ rock patches. The "best" territories are on grass/ soil patches. I almost want to say that the gulls on this colony are a but more "integrate" than those on the Tatoosh beach, but this probably isn't really the case. Spent most of day categorizing pairs of gulls from the blind #2. Ad. Bald Eagle came by at least once, disturbing the gulls & mures. Id' another 30 pairs from the blind. In late afternoon (15:00-16:00) I went back to blind no#1, and with the new "old" shotgun (side-by-side Ithaca arms-pre-WWII) collected 4 gulls - 2 pair - on one shot DAB 703-706. While I was preparing 4 birds/shot

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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

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Field Notes D. A. Bell May 26, 1990 one imm. + one sub-adult eagle are making regular foraging trips around Tatoosh I. May 27, 1990 Getting ready to pack & leave the island. Collected two gulls on Toad Point (DAB 711-712), 2 birds on 1 shot. Rainy. Fair amount of boat traffic - mostly at Cape Flattery, but not as much as expected. Rough sea must be keeping people away. We were picked up by 2 boats at 13:30. Unfortunately, Bobo Paines' standard ride from the group at Big Snow Charters couldn't take people, because someone switched on them not having a "water taxi" license for people. So another fellow had to "donate" his time to pick up the people (us). Ride to Neah Bay went quick, in a "Cadillac cruiser". More rain. Back at Neah Bay Tim "offered" to take my specimens into Seattle for me. It freed us up, so Warren and I headed for the ferry at Port Angeles. Black Ball Ferry to Victoria. Made it on the 18:00 Ferry. Weather calmed markedly. Left Victoria, and the Oake Bay Hotel for a much needed bath + beer. May 28, 1990 Sunny in Victoria. We went downtown, then tried to catch ferry to Anacortes, WA over the San Juans. But too late. Only 1 ferry on Memorial Day. So we took a ferry from Swartz Bay to Tsawwassen, BC, then the Canadian Gulf Hx.

Field Notes D.A. Bell May 28, 1990 saw 10 Bald eagles on the trip over. Then drove from BC to Seattle. The area around Delta BC is beautiful - lots of farms and marsh, but it's being developed fast. May 29, 1990 - In Seattle, WA. May 30-31: drove from Seattle to Berkeley, spent night in Yreka, CA with John & Dusty. Total trip mileage: 2,200 miles.

Queen Charlotte Is: Peregrine Surveys: 1970 1975 1980 : 1986 : 56 pairs Boat + Helicopter 1990 : 75 pair BC 88 Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey Farr & Dunbar David L. Dunbar Ministry Environ 10334-152A ST Surrey BC V3R 7P8

Field Notes D.A. Bell June 5, 1990 Met Wayne Nelson at ferry at Skidegate. On drive from Sundspit to ferry Dave Putterill saw 5 ad. Bald eagles. Morning at Putterill's, lots of Swainson's & Varied Thrushes. Islands at ferry crossing had gulls - one +/- 10 pair, another +/- 30 pair. Met Lorne McIntosh (Habitat Biologist) at Ministry Environment, Queen Charlotte City. Wayne and I talked with him for about 2 hours. Beautiful morning in Queen Charlotte - sunny, calm, hint of clouds from the west. Allan Edie: Wayne wished to get survey results of Q.C.I.'s from him, but he never called back. From 11:00 - 13:00 drove up to Graham I. to Mosett. Packed, bought supplies. We piled into a Goose at 17:00, flew first west over Mosett Inlet to Lake, crossing tremendous muskeg flats. Landed at logging camp. Then took off, flying west over spine of W. mountains, but low thru valley to West Coast, turned and flew north along West Coast to Langara I. Beautiful view - calm ocean, sunny & moderate mixed clouds. Flew to left of Forrester Island, also over a giant pinnacle. Landed at Langara Lodge in Henslow Bay.

Iphigenia pt. Wayne's List: Beebe, F.L. (1960). The marine Peregrines of NW coast. Condor 62(3):145-1 Nelson,R.W. M.T. Myers (1976). Declines in pips of peregrine falcons & their seabird prey at Langara I., B.C. Condor 78: 281-293. Nelson, R.W. (1990). Status of The Peregrine Falcon on Langara I., B.C. 1968-1989. Canadian Field Nat. 104(2): Nelson, R.W. (1984). Chpt. 69 of Sacramento book. * Veermeer, Sealy, Lemon & Rodway (1984) ICBP Technical Publ. #2 1/13

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

Langara: thru 50's Langara lodge: Hensling Bay Brooks (1926) ~ 35 pairs nest on 25 miles of coastline of Langara (1937) Brooks wrote Hickoy, 40 pairs on island 4x8 miles, over 20 climbed by naturalist in 1936'. Wayne's account of Beele's data: 1952: 0/13 1957: 2/12 Unchecked eyes: 1958 5/13 -> so 1958 something happened! 1962: Beele & Jim Anderson & Don Hunter: discovered 5st monthly sites, pressure off. 1957-58 - something happened to Langara I. Fulmaro, 1958-59: Gull + Cormorant colonies dropped by 1/2 @ Lightstation. Wayne (1990): Rat cause of declines? from {500,000 (1950's) 80,000-90,000 (1970's)} to 22,500 (1981) - If rats can do this decline, why not finish them off by now. Fury Bay colony: murrelths by and large disappeared in 60's. - Permanent change in ocean flow. 1958/59 caused declines 1957-1958 Japanese current shifted; N. Pacific T° warmed to 1970's. 1970's: W. Canadian Ocean Temps warmed. Food availability for seabirds lost Salmon Stocks: down thru 70's. Oceanic Δ's may have caused initial drop in Murrelth pops, rats effect significant, but unknown; Murrelth colony stable thru 80's.

Field Notes D.A.Bell 6 June 1990 Langara flattens out. Sites visited along way: Toehoe Point, Dibrel Bay (little middle cliff), Andrews Point, McPhearson-South Inlet. Each Time we went in to cliffs, clapped hands, whistled, etc. No birds seen or heard. Plenty of Bald Eagles, though. Also saw a few sealions. At each rocky head had several to many pigeon guillemots. 14:30 We landed at beach between McPhearson East & McPhearson W. Hiked to McPhearson W then the old Murelett camp. Heard screaming of peregrine. Then saw, not far away, at the base of a 10'ft snag first one, then a second downy Peregrine chick. It was just like in the books. How simple! The chicks appeared to have downy back & head, but feathers on wings & tail - or 1-2" down from shiatts? (4 week old?) They did fair amount of hunger screaming. At least two. As we went back behind the overgrown cliff - if you could call it that, we heard the hok-hak of an adult. Had lunch, then proceeded up to top of hill - thru tangles and past logs, rocks, etc. Got good views of adults in a double snag. Both sitting. Tried quite vocal. Tried very light,

Langara estimates: Wayne (1973) Early 50's: 21-23 pairs Stability: 1915 - mid 1950's. 1968-1984: No. of fledged young: Lowest for entire island: 4 Highest " : 19-20. If nest has 3-4 chicks in a given year, odds are 57%, nest will be there next year; If nest 1-2 young, odds 77% your nest will be there next year. eg. Parents will be alive "Sealids have gone to hell." Offshoot: Commitment of adults to produce highest quality young, whether 1-2, or 3-4. It means adults work harder. Tundra - asynchronous hatch - - young "sacrificed" is needed; that is, younger ones starve. Anatium - either none, or all survive. Peb's production: ave 4 breeding span: 2-4 years. (3). 1980's: good production of young: 1970's: best year 13 young 1980's: worst year, 13 young. Further decline of falcon mid. 60's on Langara, from 7-9 to +/- 5 pair. - The Murrelet decline mirrored by falcon decline 1950's -> 1968; but did not follow Murrelet decline after 1968. Langara may always have 4-5 peregrines, even if Murrelets disappear all together. - 50,400 ancient Murrelet equivalents = 1 Falcon territory.

Field Notes D.A. Bell 6 June 1990 His head looks bleached with lighter areas on feather tips of malar, above cere + eyebrows. His blueing is rather faded. The white of behind the malar comes all the way up to his ear, and fades into his eye (looks tundra-ish). Breast has long horizontal bars of flanks - look like shields, central belly has shorter bars - nearly flecks - also dirty, scald or real salmon fleck on belly. Bib has thin vertical strips on feathers suchs. The falcon presents a completely different appearance - well groomed. She is dark, blueing nearly blackish sheen, strikes malar well defined on face, bib + vertical stripes + belly + flecks of horizontal bars that look more uniform, no less demarkation between flanks + belly. God, she has big feet. Wayne says same pair as last year. Falcon has no bands. The both have hearts that appear very white, not creamy. Tiercel has faded cere, yellow feet. Falcon has yellow cere, feet. Falcon also has lighter fe cap feathers above cere. And, some black rachis etching in white patch behind the malar stripe. Neat - could see tip of tiercel wings extend ~ 1 cm beyond talc tip. Tiercel has high & screech, falcon very low, raspy lek- lek lek. Ford wing bones + primaries of dead falcon - im... on our knoll. Then moved to cryic: located on shelf beneath prey, grassy, overgrown. 4 young! You can get to the cryic by climbing thru some roots. Shelf area about 6' long, but winding around + under snags & stumps. One can also walk out along grassy ledge in front of cryic.

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 6 June 1990 and peer in. Wayne retrieved 3 young, and I got the fourth. All from banded 4 green band on left leg and silver band on r. leg. 3 ??, 1 ? ca. 25 days old. (?'s fledge 43 d; ??'s 41 d). Also retrieved picked out 39 Ancient Murleitt, 3 Lessin Skelot + 1 Fork-tailed Storm Petrel from egrie. Also took blood samples from each chick by toe clipping (end of claw, that is). Finished with falcons and returned to boat @ 1900. Ad. tired still screaming. It's been at it all day. Then we continued N + W around Langara I. As we departed McPherson Point we heard + then saw an Ancient Murleitt chick in the kelp. It swamied back to the rocks - striking black + white pattern. We hurried over for a look. Wayne noticed it by its 3s-chew- 3s-chew warbling note (means, as they descend to water they give a 3wcep-3wcep-3wcep call). Bad timing for the chick to be out in broad daylight. Must have gotten stuck in log jaws on way out at night. Wayne thinks if it could make it out to sea for a mile, its parents might recognize its call. We checked cliffs between Telegraph Post + Langara Light Station where we found a single ad. falcon, on a snag. We motored in, scared it off, but it only flew a short distance, to land in a tree. We watched it for about 10 min, then decided to land me to see if it would become defensive. As we decided to do that, it disappeared [19:15]. Then on to Langara Light - Radar Post Between Radar + Post Langara Light Langara Light I also looked for falcons, but none seen

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 6 June 1990 where we motored in to the cleft to sound for falcons. could not scare any up with hand clapping. But, we did note other sclanids there. On the rocky promontory E of station about 15 pair of GWGs on territory, maybe a couple of which were incubating. Then, on main cliffs in front of station, about 25 more pairs (some incubating ~ 4?) and a few copulating, and on rocks W of station another 6-10 pairs. Add in about 10 more individual loos pair, and we have an estimate of ~ 60 pairs of GWG's on territory, but most of which are not yet incubating. Probably another 15 imm. + subadults and ~ 40-50 ad. loofers on rocks at shoreline (GWGs). also counted ~ 60 bo loafing Pelagic Cormorants, of which 1/3 were imm. One pelagic on nest in falcon cleft. And roughly 15 sub-ad. Black-legged Kittiwakes on rocks below lightstation. The crows seem to keep a watchful eye on the gull colony, and a bald Eagle flew over it causing great alarm in the gulls. Somehow I wonder if these gulls get any young off! After Radar Point the Lightstation we continued around to Telegraph Point, where we observed two adult falcons in residence. Then we went to Fury Bay West, Fury Bay Mid no birds (but Wayne says e birds, they are always here) and Fury Bay East. An for camp at 21:00.

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 7 June 1990 Up at 0700. Birds heard around cabin: Chestnut- backed Chickadee, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Bald Eagle, some sort of Warbler (Orange-crowned?), and golden-crowned Kinglet. 10:04 departed ferry bay, headed for Cox Island. Landed on NBE beach, just N of large reef area. Hiked to SE end of I., near the large Window Pinnacle. Saw 2 ad. Bald Eagles fly about the Pinnacle. One of the eagles had a raspy, hoarse, guttural hunk or call, the likes of which Wayne had never heard, nor I. One ad. bald settled on top of the pinnacle. They had nested on it before in the past (81?). We positioned ourselves in a knoll of a view of the SE-facing gully, just S of the main Cox I. E face of Cox I. Watching @ 11:05. Heard falcon call intermittently, but it isn't obvious where she is sitting. On our way thru the woods to our old spot we heard singing Swainson's & Hermit Thrushes, Winter Wren, three Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Crow. 11:40 Wayne spotted one falcon in gully @ top of tree, mostly hidden by branches. Sang Sparrow song. 11:50 We changed position to get a better view of the gully. As I moved down to Wayne's spot I saw the falcon fly across the gully and disappear to the W. 12:02 - We moved back up to higher vantage. Wayne spotted a falcon in tree on W end, but E face of the SE gully. I moved up. spotted it too. Tired ad.; not the tinsel from last year. Last year the "masked marauder" had been

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 7, 1990 in residence for 7 years, he & mate did not have young last year. This tiercel is dark & well-defined male, looks almost black; his white ear patch (behind male) is clean except that a "two-footed boot" of cup color (lighter than head & male) protrudes down into ear patch such that some small white patches are visible on either side of head, almost at the nape. Wayne says this is very unusual. The tiercel has light band just above the cere, and vent demarcation zw. clear lil & breast/flanks flecking. Flanks & belly flecking rather uniform. Slight pinkish to belly feathers - making an V between flanks (thigh) patches. Dark yellow feet, lighter yellow cere, faded eye lids. We can still hear occasional scream of another falcon. 12:25 Tiercel preening. He's had left leg tucked all the time. His nape, also has light V of whitish feathers. Quite distinctive. Wayne says this Cox I. cyrix hasn't produced chicks in last 3 years - although it has changed 2 ft's: 1 3yrs ago, 1 2yrs ago (Mes. Marauder). Broke for lunch at 1300. Sat on leg overlooking Cloak Bay. Saw 1 minor otter in bay. Hitched/climbed up E face of Cox I., using some of the ropes Bristol had put in in '86 for his filming of the falcons. 14:15 - On top of SE end of Cox I., essentially near SE gully where we had seen the falcons earlier today. The Bald Eagles have a nest on top of the Windrow Pinnacle. The nest is on top of the grass at tops

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Field Notes D.A.Bell June 7, 1990 of the pinnacle: it looks like only on end of nest consist of sticks, the rest blends into the grassy knoll. The cd. ? is either incubating or shading a chick - she's flat out on the nest. Ad. & on other, smaller pinnacle nearby. Great view of the nest. at 14:15 we heard lek-lek-lek of an irate falcon, [illegible] this coming from the big E face of Cox I- Wayne located the tiered, on a tree on [illegible] end of SE gully, facing W-SW. Quite close. 14:30 - it definitely looks like the Bald Eagle is shading/brooding a chick. We've had mixed clouds/sun all day, with some light showers. 14:35 - the eagle stood up in the nest, just a bit, to then look down into the nest. It picked at something in the bowl several times, bill opening & closing could be seen. 14:39- 14:50 - eagle mostly half-drooped over nest, somewhat on haunches, wings drooped a bit out to the sides, very alert looking, often staring or staring *staring* in my direction. During 14:15- 15:00 Wayne watched the tiered Peregrine, it was in close & on SE side of gully, then after long while flew to SW side of gully, sat. Another peregrine flew over high, The tiered saw it, launched off; the fast incoming falcon flew thru gully, the tiered whipped off and around after it, going round the W end of Cox I., no vocalizations at all. We proceeded up to [illegible] and down along the W end of SW gully. Wayne showed me the crest of ledge leading down to the grass- ledge eyrie site, then a countryship ledge at very end

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Field Notes D. A. Bell 7 June 1990 of SW spine, then another eyrie site just below an overhang. We could scramble over roots and drop down onto ledge- wide, 6-7' long. A scrape was present in soft, moss-peat floor of ledge. The scrape was positioned out from lack of ledge, such that it was nearly in line with edge of overhang. Beautiful spot. No birds. Then we watched the Bald eagle nest - good view, and saw ad & feed (16:00) small kit to a very small eaglet. She was very clumsy with the chick. Good view of eagle nest from top of W face of SW gully. We found one Pelagic Cormorant egg and some feathers of a flower (?) Golden, Black-billed, in forest stops Cox. We then walked over to other two eyrie sites, on N gully of Cox (this area looks out upon the reef area to the NE and has a clear view of the 4th Pinnacle to the N, and 3rd Pinnacle to the E-NE. Each eyrie site was an E and W for ends of N gully, somewhat facing each other. Waynes blind for his thesis work was on W end, looking at E end. Both eyrie ledges were crawl-ins. Wide, flat shelves, mossy, beneath & around behind many roots. Easy travel from ledge to other areas for chicks, etc. We found 4 fresh cormorant eggs on top of log in forest. On way out we found another cormorant egg in forest. Saw 1 gull nest + 4 Pelagic Cormorant nests on main W side pinnacle (twin-trees on top). Winter wrens on top of Cox I- one seen carrying

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 7 June 1990 ford in hill. Also found yet another Pelagic Cormorant egg. All eggs found today, except for its first cormorant egg, are really fresh. We hiked/climbed back down the trail off the top of Cox I. On beach at 17:50. Decided to go back to original obs posts on small pinnacles SE of SE gully, and watch for Peregrines. 18:00 - at observation posts. 18:13 heard leaping scream and "shaley voice" call (similar to a courtship kestrel call). Wayne said this call usually given in flight. 18:15- suddenly tiercel appeared in gully, landed high on ledge below tangle of roots (where the ledge with the scrape was)! He started screaming, then went into an echup-echup, launched off the ledge when we saw another falcon high over Cox I. heading E. The tiercel resident appeared to give chase, at another tierel. Both climbed and flew out first in direction of Iphigenia, then turned W out over strait, in direction of Fury Bay. Resident tiercl below & behind, gave a couple power climbs followed by nearly horizontal stops. The resident tiercel stayed pretty much below & behind, but when out 1 mi. he was ahead and below the intruder; gained height, turned and stooped at intruder, then intruder also stooped, and they crossed. At which point resident tiercel turned to return to Cox I. He did one more power up & horizontal stop. Intruder kept going towards Rhodis Pt. Wayne said resident often do power climbs & stops as display, and, if they're really paired, they'll echup-echup just before. The resident

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 7 June 1990 Tiercel came in to W end of Cox I low, out of sight. Right after that we saw the falcon (?) sitting high in the prominent snag of SE gully. Definitely a different bird - very marked breast, flank marking, thick horizontal bars, and vertical tear-drops even up into loil, nearly to throat & malar. The malar was quite thick, and there was a kind of a white patch on nape. The ear patch looked smaller than the tiercel's, and I think this falcon had more of a "hood" than the resident tiercel. In any case, she looked big & dark, with markings all up the breast. In fact, at first I thought she was an imm. On looking at Wayne's reference photo, we concluded that this is a new ?. So, both adults at Cox I. are new this year. At the beach we decided to go over to Iphigenia Pt. and check out the cliff from the boat. Arrived there at 20:00, to immediately see the falcon fly out to stopped tree snag, hah-hah-hahing, with food in foot. The ? plucked the prey for ca. 1-2 min, then flew right back to the eyrie ledge! She walked into the ledge, and lumbered down - appearing to feed ingoring. This lasted ~ 15 min, then she flew out & landed on pinnacle in front. About 20:30 the Tiercel appeared, landed in snag high on cliff. About 15 min later he disappeared going W, returned 20:45 w/ prey, corkscrewed over pinnacle ?&, landed on cake shelf of pinnacle, ate, ran around abit, then flew to moss ledge on E cliff. At 21:15 we left, saw falcon sitting on pinnacle. Rain.

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 8, 1990 Up at 07:30. Saw deer down on beach near the creek, plus a few Harlequin Ducks. Swainson's Thrush singing. Wayne heard the call of a Red-throated Loon flying over Colin, and last night we heard what might have heard the call of Marbled Murrelet flying over about 23:00 (still light out). Also, yesterday on Clark Bay we saw Red-throated Loon. Anyway, left camp Fury Bay middle at 09:45, walking W to the eyrie site at Fury Bay middle. Low tide @ 09:00. Wayne showed me his old blind set out on Fury Bay East (1969). He had set up blind at one location where ads. had screeled, this forced adults to move to another location, where they laid 2 eggs. Wayne took one egg for (WS), the birds moved to a 3rd location, where they laid 3 eggs. 1 egg disappeared, 1 egg hatched well. Other chick died at hatching. 1 chick raised- his blind was only 13' away from scrape ! We continued walking along beach/rock! diff edges. Found an aviators helmet, wood bench, gaff. Heard Winter Wrens, saw Townsend's Warbler. Arrived Fury Bay Middle at 11:15, so it took ~ 1.5 hours to walk here. Heard Western Flycatcher, Swainson Thrush. Good SE winds, overcast. 11:50: Falcon appeared from W, flew to East gully side. Dark, large, thick malar, gray feathers at over ear- so small white on patch. Good heart markings -> wide horizontal bars on flanks. Bif Y method loss. 12:00 the lek-holed at Bald Eagle, flew at it, returned to a snag on E gully side. 12:05 she chased another eagle, returned to tree top.

Field Notes D.A. Bell 8 June 1990 very close to us, but she was well-blocked by branches. Head has wide light area above eye, some small flecks in white ear patch. I'm struck by Peals' wide & long malars, plus fact that their crown & back colors don't show a lot of diff in shade. Malars + crown tend to show light flicking. Whole bird gives appearance of lighter slate-gray (vs. Calif., where birds appear slate-black). Lower flanks feathers have wide horizontal lines (or flattened chevrons), perhaps ½ cm wide, that become more straight and thin horizontal as you go up the breast. 12:38 - Tuiral shot in food from W, falcon flew out, landed in close tree, tuirol landed on snag. Falcon's are faded yellow, feet yellower, but still pale. No lands on tuired. He looks "cleaner"- uniform back & head. Ear patch also slightly covered of light gray /pattern at ear. 12:46 - Tuiral launched off, went W, returned to a tree on E side gully 12:50: off tree, made wind in front of gully (wood + grasty) back & forth in front of us, then moved up E gully side out of view. 12:50 - falcon still in close tree. 13:10- we came off high dr. port, back to rocky shore. At's lunch, saw an eagle fly by, hen went out & closed it. We tried making noise, she came out to fly quietly, overs around us 13:50 - Landed on snag top. Heat view. Peals really have wide horizontal lines on flanks, becoming thinner as you go up. The breast, has tear-drop shaped flecks, well defined usually, and the belly has lighter horizontal lines, as on the flanks, but lighter. This falcon has nice thin pencil-marks over most of bit. 14:15 - falcon left snag soared around E gully, then back to land high in tree.

Field Notes D.A. Bell 8 June 1990 in E side of gully. No sign of turkel for quite a while, and no food either. 14:15 Trivel took a shot at a Bald Eagle out W of gully times, her-hiking. 14:30 One of the peregrines making several short fly-albuts in front of gully, returning to may a tree in E side of gully. 14:30-15:20 : Watching gully. The hen has changed position a few times, usually returning to a snag or tree in so E side of gully - 16:00 - Still watching her on snag. Lite rain. 16:15 - Rain heavy, hen no longer visible. 16:15-18:00, rain. 18:00 Hen visible on high tree east of gully. Seen out, she's drying out - preening, stretching, etc. Silver band on left leg visible. 18:40 Winter Wren came out to rocky slope to pege in crachs in rocks. Pair of tiny Sparrows doing same. While watching hen Peals in snag - nice afternoon sun (18:45) - blue sky background - oh warmth again. Now the Peals has a very "black & white" appearance - slate dark texts black-grey back & crown/malar. White breast a bit, with only a hint of cream color on lower belly. A Peals' Blackish slate gray is still not as black as a Calif Peregrine's. Rather, it has a slight "musty", a "fulmar sheen" to it. This ad. I was here last year also didn't revive young. This ? hos a pair of whitish spots on rafe. 18:50 - Bald eagle pair on W end of M.D- Funny bug launched out of over bay - Peregrine did not react. 21:00 - Falcon flew from summing second perch or snag to tree on top of E end of gully. 21:30 We packed up and slowly made our way back to the cabin. In the area below the cliff of the

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 8 June 1990 Old Fury Bay East Eyrie Wayne showed me a cave - we went in w/ flashlight. Really neat - the entrance to the cave is about 60' above sea level. The cave slopes down steeply - Wayne said he's found [illegible] Ancient Murklett shells in it - they do not get back out. It leveled out after first 30', then goes back into cliffs about 120'. Smooth grunk on the floor of initial wide cavern, that then goes into a deeper cavern with a roof about 60' high. The cave then narrows to human width, and one needs to stoop as one goes - past bizarre stalagites & stalagnites. Even the walls are coated with this same material as the cones: putty yellowish limestone appearance. Floor of cave here has rounded rocks - as on beach. Under these rocks are many lines - some very brittle - of shell bits, fish. Even fish scales. How old? Some lines new, some very old. We collected a few bones for ID, possible dating. Turned off lite & listened to the darkness. Back out around 21:00. Continued E. At last cliff before Calvin Beach; we stopped at an old shellfish Indian midden tucked up & under a large overhang. Also found several peregrine feather ad saw [illegible] on walls way under overhang - a minutes soot? Back to Clint at 22:00. Deer, 16 Harlequin Ducks on beach. Also Varied Thrush. Also Pigeon Guilewett in rocks, & pair of GGC's on Dog's Head.

Field Notes D.A. Bell 9 June 1990 Up at 07:30. 36 Harlequin Ducks on calvin beach, 1 deer. Left camp 10:04. Ad. Bell in tree near Dog's Head. 1 pr. CWS, and 19 Pigeon Guillemots foraging. Stopped at Largaras Lodge - John & Terry Van Berkel - said hello. Terry is going back to ~~Vancouver~~ - they'll have a child soon. Fishery is rather poor - loads of sand eel loafs a herring feeding on them, but few salmon. Most catch bottom fish. Water turgs up this year. Landed at Discol Bay site 11:20. Heard wail of peregrine. Also Raven croaks. As we walked up from beach about ? we could hear screaming wails of young being fed. Then the adults began hunking at us. Tsurvel has a very harsh, raspy voice - it sounds almost lower than the falcons. The falcon has a heavily marked flank, breast & belly. Belly bars thinner than flanks' bars, and as you go up the flanks its bars turn into thick teardrops or chevrons. Belly & upper breast also has thick teardrops. Bill has rather thick penciling. Faint stain or pink on belly. Throat & ear patches appear clean, white. Thick males can convert themselves are grayish, giving appearance of a half hood. Super cere cere like lightish, thick, going nearly over entire forehead. No bands. Wayne ID the Tsurvel- buth adults same as last year. (Last year's eyrie had 4.) We hiked up W end of Cliff - small arch - ca 60' high, maybe 100' around. Thick trees in front of and on top of hills behind Mike Nielsen mgr. Lang. Ldg. Lodge owned by Doctor Discol Bay

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Field Nots D.A. Bell 9 June 1990 with - true "forest" falcon. Adult breeding are. We walked over to west of rock. Falcons have a ledge about 15' below crest. Small shrubbery, grass, good scrape. Ledge measures about 6 x 4', but young could scramble further up grassy ledge nearly to top. 3 chicks: 1 8 (820g) + 2 49 (1015); probably 22+23 days old. Ledge has a scrape almost 2-3' out from back of cliff - it is nearly approached vertically - that is, not protected by overhang. The eyrie rock is back from the rocky shore, hidden well in trees. Saw Yellow- bellied Sapsucker on way up rock. We were on top of rock at 13:40, finished 4 chicks at 14:40. The Dibrel Bay eyrie is on peninsula leading out to Andrew's Point, and the south end of Dibrel Bay is formed by Coke Point. We left the beach at Dibrel Bay about 15:00, drove the Zodiac E & S around to the strait between Tangua & Lucy Is. Good View of Pillar Rock on Graham A. (in Pillar Bay) - a "Becke" eyrie. Seas were not too bad, no more white caps - just loads of waves going every which way, but it became very calm at the lodges. We stopped for a short while at Hphigienia Pt., to saw after 5 min. one adult on as well as 4 high soaring birds in the sun! a French Lander crown of tree, then proceeded W to Fanny Bay. We went first to Mid-Fanny Bay. Wayne wanted to get the male id'd. We tried on it some help. Saw the falcon - I got out 16-Gauge and tried to see if we could scare up the tunicol. No such luck. So we went on W to

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 9, 1990 Furry Bay W, fried, scared up Bald eagle. Went to White spot cliff, (just E of Furry Bay W), fried. No response, but about 5 mi. later we saw a tiercel Peregrine zip in a tree top level from the W - headed for Furry Bay Middle site. Wow! We looted over to Furry Bay Middle, landed on rocks in heavy swirls. ~~Before landing~~ we saw the tiercel fly to a may right on the rock, the od. falcon flew over to a ledge, screaming at him. This falcon ~~is at least in her 6th breeding season.~~ We landed, and after things were safe, saw that the falcon had moved back to a tree perch on E side of gully. A then saw the tiercel, and Wayne was able to id him - same bird as last year. So this is second year in a row that the pair failed. Falcon screamed at him a bit. He is very clean, light, gentle markings on breast & flanks, the flank marking looks almost lighter than upper breast & flake. Bito has fine penciling. Malar thick, with small line of grey going at angle off to raze, denoting the ear patch. Gorgeous bird. Just before we were to leave, we saw the falcon go after an od. Bald going E. She put in long hard stop, may have touched its wing, tiercel followed right behind 4an even harder stop, causing the eagle to turn and drop down. He also might have whacked a wing. Falcon put in a second stop also nearly hitting the eagle. By this time it was nearly beyond Furry Bay East. Both od. peregrines returned to Furry Bay Med. She was still screaming at him, too.

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Field Note D.A. Bell June 10, 1990. Out of bed at 07:30. Ravens on beach at week. Left Cabin at 10:15, in boat. Overcast this morning, but clearing. Bald Eagle on Digis Head, as well as a pair of CW's - 10 Harlequins. + Oyster Catchers. - + whitecaps - abit wet. 10-20 mph NW winds, and swells to 5' around Lacy Island at SW corner of Langara I. (That is, the area between South West side of Langara and the strait between Langara and Knox Point on Graham Island. It took us about 40 min to motor to a beach in the Lords' Bete - a flat expanse of reefs along W side of Langara, between SW corner and Radar Point. We are at a fine beach, loads of timber, and a cabin w/ real windows is up from the beach, in woods. 1st Heard Oyster Catchers, begging Chickadees, Golden-crowned Klippets, Song Sparrows, and some type of warbler w/a scratchy song - zee be dee zawee juwee juwee juwee dee, dee, dip. We will head N to overland to an ergie site at Radar Point. We just might have heard a flock of Rossbill (Red?) at 11:30. We hiked thru moss-lined canyon and along beach to Radar Point - and an old WWII wooden road which leads out to it. From Radar Point Wayne said you can look NW and see Forster Island in AK, but it was too hazy. Large ship going in to Prince Rupert. Big white caps & 20 mph wind. Saw 5 Bald eagles and 6 crows on Radar Point. We hiked up the road about 10 min, then out to a gorge series of 3 gullies. Heard hooting of Peregrines. From wall of first 5 gorge we didn't see eagle remains chirps at last year's ergie, but wind * ite. from Bristol film park who seem. We then hiked to middle, promising between both gorges (and above last year's SW again facing ergie). But la

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 10, 1990 1.5 hours until 15:30. Wayne got 2 I'd - some as last year, but the tailed flew in strong winds (a glided over our heads, often stationary) for the whole time. We find again site on well-grown shelf cs. 30' down on other SW facing side of gorge. At least 2 chicks visible, and they are younger than any others so far. This site had 1 chick in 1989. Falcon sat well-screening, she made many close passes in gorge as Wayne went over side @ 16:00. I got good pictures of both ads sitting. Traced two wide malar, ear patch filled dorsally by light gray feathers and a couple darker flecks at run of patch - one of which is large (its one in front of other). Light, irregular patch proceeds nearly up to level of upper mandible, and has a small finger in two-side eye. Next by a large ear patch is filled dorsally from nose down to about 1/2 length of malar stripe (all left side description). Filled part of ear patch somewhat resembles Vietnam. He has two faint lighter patches between eye & cere on left side of head, one close to eye, one close to nostril. Right side similar, but less distinct distinct. Almost no band of lighter feathers above cere. 3 chicks? All tailed! The adults seem to have both very raspy voices. Their kee-kee-hehe seem to have a rasp to them. The falcon is a beautiful bird - very slate blue & white. She has lighter flecks fifth behind the car patch and on the nape. Her band of light feathers above cere is also well pronounced. From the side her flanks & breast present an almost specker-like pattern - as the breast of a European Gerhamb. Her longjointed bands are thin and long on flanks. The wide flecking on her flanks go all the way up to her shoulders, and present a neat appearance across the breast & belly. Her tail has thick

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 10, 1990 flexes [illegible] lower down, and sticks ones up towards throat. God, I've gotten great views of her on a smag 60' away. No bombs. Could even see the brown of her poop inside in the sun. No joints in tend ad. either. Prey at eyrie: I Mabled Murrelett + 5 Ancient Murrelets. Chicks approx. 14 days old. We left the eyrie at about 21:00 - so we spent ca. 5 hours at the Radar Point Eyrie. Went back to Wooden Road, rested. Hard Rufous-Hummingbird zip by (also recall seeing a Rufous Hummor on Cox Island on 6-7-90). On walk back to Beach in Lord's light we heard Hermit Thrushes singing - I had also seen one at the Calin on Lord's Light. Arrived at boat 21:53. Saw ad. Bald & ad GWs. Left Calin dearch in Zodiac, headed out into the NW wind & waves. The waves were in many directions, I swells probably out of NW & W. But there weren't as many whitecaps as the way out. Saw pair of GWG's on Dry's Head, + 3 Red-throated Zowns. Oh, also saw 3 oryst catchers + 2 Bald Eagles in Lord's Light. The GWs is a Deyz Head - & is ad; & has gray on all rectrices. June 11, 1990 Hend funny whoops-whoop at 05:45 this morning. We get up to check, but didn't see anything. Weather out of SW-W, overcast, rainy. Heard 2 warblers this morning - one with a fluty voice - whede wheele whade whedde TEE tip rather even frist note, last 2 [illegible] in pitch - Townsend's Warbler. And another 1 buzzy, rapid notes, followed by 2 higher quick notes -> Wilson's Warbler. I now boat out into Fary Bay - Weights of Radar Pt. Trinidad: 535 g 570 g 615 g (-50g for bag) Low Tide 10:20 High: 17:00

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 11, 1990 good smells, SW wind. 25 Harlequins out on bay. Road boat over to Langara Lodge, located behind Lodge. Saw close-up ed a imm Bald Eagle. Varied Thrush singing in background. Hiked thru blowdown and latches of undergrowth to a position just E of Iphigenia eyrie site. Left Lodge on foot at 12:00 Rain, cold wind. Could see 3(?) downy chicks in eyrie. Arrived at old site at 15:00 14:30. Then had to sit out rain for an 1¼ hrs. Then hiked around gorge to top of eyrie area. 16:00. (Saw imm, begging White-Wrens, heard Western Flycatchers and saw a Swainson's Thrush? on hike from Langara Lodge to Iphigenia.) Also, as we arrived at Lodge we had heard a wailing penguin - floater? Now at Iphigenia - can hear belching adults - at every passing Bald Eagle. Sounds like an adult friend is screaming at us on top of rock. Watching ad. falcon may across the gorge from us. Beautiful angle, lighting. Thick male, hood filled in to level w/upper mandible. Clean central portion of ear patch, slight boot protrudes into ear patch from rope. Think flank markings up to straddled shoulder, belly & think tear drops (so breast is not as geosculpted as the radar swift bird). Bite & think tear drop over fleche. Beautiful view of her right side - oblique Crest. Pale yellow feet, palm are. No crown a mapo uniform. Packard has irregular lighter patches. Chubs: 88 5556 We both climbed down the rope, Wayne ahead of me, along a solid-covered shaft to the eyrie ledge below. A beautiful site! 3 downy chicks, approx. [illegible]. 13 day old, 2 &D; 1 ♀. The ledge is about 3'x6 rectangular with

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 11, 1980 a nice scrape in dusty soil, and a small branch at the ergies' lips. Nice view of its pinnacle in front, and across the street to Graham Island. Wayne landed (silver right, green left) the chicks, too clipped. The hen falcon screamed most the time, as did the chicks. She made occasional nice close passes at us. I got good pictures of her in a way. Tried shoved up just as we started down, but then disappeared. I did not see him until 1 hom later. He kept his distance on opposite side of gorge. We hand-over-handled the rope back up on top at 18:30. Wayne watched for the staircl, got a few pictures, then we packed up & left at 19:00. Long hike back to beach at Langara Lodge. Arrived 20:30. By the time we had the boat loaded and had talked to the lodge people, it must have been 21:15. We rode the Zodiac W to just W of Fury Bay, into high swells (3 m). At least wind had calmed down, and it wasn't raining. Still, rough waves going every which way. We wanted to look for Ancient Murrelets. Found a group of 8 and a couple loners about 1 mi S of the White Spot Cliff on shore of Fury Bay at about 22:00. We chased them around and I took some photos. One ad. gave a characteristic call when he was separated from the others. Beautiful little seabirds. As we entered Dog's Head 3 ad GW's were on it. Got the beach in swells at 22:30. Oh yes - we saw several Marbled Murrelets in half spring/winter plumage (white bellies). The Sphignaria pair appears to be more falcon, but now turned.

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 12, 1990 Up late today 08:00. Slow going this morning, but at least it is clear & sunny. We loaded up the boat. I heard definite Willows Warbler & Varied Thrushes this morning, plus our usual Townsend's Warbler. We listened to radio broadcast - NW winds to 30 mph predicted. Oh well. We left lay headed W and around Lacey Island along W coast of Langara N to the Radar Point, and then the Light Station, at NW end of island. Saw one group of 4 Ancient Murrelets, several groups 1-3 Rhino Auklets (some in breeding), several groups of Tufted Puffins (one flock of 6), and a feeding group of Pelagics, GWS's & couple Black-legged Kittiwakes. In all ~20 Rhinos, 15 Tufted Puffins. On landing 12:35. We walked from landing (where boat, sled & boat are located) up a wooden road - in direction of Light Station. We walked about 12 min., saw ad. falcons fly over. Then we went to a lunch observation spot, could see one falcon (ad.) cliff soaring back & forth over gully. After lunch we moved up road to blind (obs site) directly across gully from eagles eyrie. Could see great flying min. of ad & J. Then, in blind, both adults and one eyre as, small "cave" formed by overhanging roots at top of gully - facing SE. Beautiful views of both adults - both have good markings & hints of "hoods". The falcon is strongly marked with wide flank marks and thick breast/ belly spots. She looks heavily spotted on breast. Bel has pencil markings too. Trend is very fine on breast, very thin markings, guts clean. I also just got a pair of GWS's IV,

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 12, 1990. which are most likely in grass at base of gully. Very light links - 1" tips nearly = mantle. Dark pink eyerings and thickly pigmented eye rings. Saw one courting feed 4/6" sand linnas. Wayne has ID both the Peregrines and determined that they are the same pair as last year. The falcon is landed, with a silver band rt. and a green band left. She came from Furry Boy esprio 4 years ago. Quite nice! It was approaching 15:30, so we decided to get on with the work. We hiked to back to the road along the wood road to a trail that led around the gully. More crawling + climbing over & under brush. Wayne went in to the esprio, I went below to the rock shore to categorize gulls. Found 6 pairs of GWG's to ID. These links are on the headlands just E of the light station and W of the falcon gully. While id-ing gulls I could hear the raspy behching of the ad. peregrines, and occasionally saw them hanging on the mud above us. Saw a fair number of Laughing Gering Gulls and one Western Bull. Met Wayne back at the trail est 17:10, after I had gotten lost in underbrush. We went to the Light Station. Well kept, neat, met Warren & Ellaine Kennedy (+ daughter, Chantrel, son. ) (3rd kid on the way in Sept). We stayed for a great dinner. Then tried ID-ing gulls below the station proper. About 5 more pairs, but light was getting poor. Beautiful view over Dixon Entrance - clouds scattered, sun sinking down, strong winds. Just gorgeous. Wayne & I went back to the boat landing to get some things. Stopped at the beach to watch the

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 12, 1990 falcon. The falcon sat on stump above the eagle chick (a f), and hollered at us. The triel rode the wind above us, making long arcing stops & streeing throwing up into the wind over the hill behind the eyrie. He went up nearly as high as his starting point. He cut a beautiful silhouette against a gray/pink evening sky. Birds seen along wood road: Winter Wrens (4+ young), Hermit Thrushes (4 food for young), Orange-crowned Warblers, (4/spe lugging young). At Light Station we saw robins on the lawn. Talked with Warren and Elaine until 29:30; finally got to bed at 01:00. Slept in the space house at the station, wow, warmth, a great dinner & shower. June 13, 1990 Up at 07:15. Had great breakfast w/ Warren & Elaine. Then went to the gull colony on rocks below the light station (Langara Light), id'd gull types for 10 pairs, then collected 2 gulls on 2 shots (lost a 3rd bird in surf). DAB 713 & 714. The third bird was the mate of 713, shot with 713 in one shot. He flew out over the surf and then collapsed, crashing into the rough surf dead. The pair had been on a 3-clutch nest. Weather was sunny & windy today out at the Light. I went back to the station, said goodbye to Elaine, then walked down the wood road to meet Wayne who was at the obs bench showing Warren & the kids the eyrie. We had a good view of the adult falcon and her chick. She flew

1968 1 Skedans (Skedans Is) Rant 2 Low I 3. Reet I NE 4. Reet I SW 5. Vertical Point (Limestone Is). 6. Pass Pt / W of 17+ N of Haswell I/Kingsway Rock (also S at Nelson Pt - Selwyn Inlet) 7 Helmet I (E Laskeek Bay) (5.) 8. Titul I 9. Tsinga Pt (s) (S Dodge Pt) 10. Fuller Pt 11. Tar Islands (mid) 12. Agglomerate .I. (mid, E) 13. Murchison I. NE Pt 14. Faraday I (sw) 15. Ramsay I SE 16 Ramsay I, Crombie Pt NW Vin. I. Cox 1 Larz 2 N Hansen Bay 1 San Josef Bay N 1 1969 1 2 3 4. 6 7. 12. 9. 8. 11 10

Field Notes D.A. Bell 13 June 1990 about the gorge & down out our motor, then came back & landed on stump above cluck, bobbing at us. After 10 min. we left the observation stump and went down to the landings. Struggled to get all the gear and lost in the water - good swells, tide lowes. Noticed we were filling up water as one sat around in the boat. Headed east along N shore of Langara. Fired off some shots in a couple inlets to check for penguins. Eagles scared up in the inlet E of Langara Light Station. Then we got to the inlet @ Sealion Rocks. Fired off a shot - to scare up one falcon - looked like a turnch- Thought we might try landing at an inlet E of this spot, but the low tide was not good. Since we were filling up so fast, we decided to keep going around E and to get back to the cabin in Fury Bay. Met John (of Lang. Lodge) in strait between Langara & Lucy Is. He gave us some sandwiches, so we really had great lunch (please the lunch the Lightstation people gave us. Got load back in rough SW winds to the cabin about 15:30. Wayne fixed tires a tires in the boat while I worked on the 2 gull specimens.

1968 17. Huxley I. nr Monument Rk. - N 18. Huxley I nr W point. Howay I 19. Ikeda Pt 20. Langtry I 21. Lyman Pt (N) 22. At Treat Bay 23 ' ' 24 Howe Bay 25. S of Bowles Pt 2 mi S of Barber Pt 5 mi Kerouard I ~6. Anthony I - SW 27. Skelu Pt 28-30 Hippa I 31. nr Nughes Pt 32. N, Notch Pt 33 nr Barry I

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

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Field Notes D.A. Bell June 14, 1990 found one beautiful ledge, w/ scrape and a falcon back feather, on top beneath a large root ad downed tree at the top of a middle ridge (of 3) in the inlet. Great moss- crowded mound in front. Scrape on ledge faces W-NW. Also saw Brown Treeeepers; and we heard an chipping thrush, saw him skirt across stay in front of inlet- e-chipping to drive off intruder? Is this a floater pair? Hear Red Crossbills. We made our way back to the boat at the beach at 12:30. Sat on rocks in rain, to eat lunch & watch for peregrines. Found one mail as soon as we sat down; tho after 1.5 hrs, the tide was nearly taking our beach away, so we decided to fire off another shot. I fired into the water, and about 30 sec. later we saw a falcon (thrush) gently zip out of the gorge and round the trees, headed E. We packed up the boat, and decided to head E around the island. Lots of drizzle, wet conditions. But the seas are calmer on the E side. Lots of ledge loots are [illegible] holding about the E side, so are the heli-but boats (season started yesterday). We rounded Henelong Bay and motored to Aphigenia Point. Good swells & chop coming in from the W, but the rain dulled, so I decided to collect some gulls. There was a pair on the rocks near pinnacles *1, that was soon joined by a third adult GWC. We slowly made our way over to them. The waves were pretty regular, and rain was threatening. I managed to

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Field Notes D. A. Bell June 14, 1990 collect all three birds on 5 shots, missed twice at close range. We then headed for the colony on Cox Island, and I shot a fourth bird that had come off the W rocks to investigate the other 3 birds in the Zodiac. (One of the original 3 birds, which I had missed, went right over to a rock, and sat there. It didn't look wounded, but it stayed put while we waited below it. Finally we scared it up, then I got it on a long shot -> beautiful). In all, D1B 715-718. All these 4 gulls originated from the Cox Island colony. After getting the birds, we motored around Cox Island into Cloak Bay, where we tossed one of the previous day's gulls into the water near the Window Pinnacle to see if a bald eagle would go for it. One eagle did come over to check it out, as did another gull. Somehow the eagle then turned on the gull, and made a series serious attempt to get. The gull realized this and began flying in earnest to vacate the side of Cloak Bay. The eagle came quite close in a couple dives, but the gull got away. We enjoyed a rough ride and pouring rain back to the cabin at Fairy Bay; by the time we got the boat up on the beach and our equipment stored, it was 17:00. I did the gulls, including a skin, under a plastic tarp of our cabin. Got to bed about 23:00. 4 birds/6 shots

Field Notes D.A. Bell June 15, 1990 Up at 06:30 Thank goodness, no real rain, partly cloudy skies. We packed everything up, taking several hours. Light rain came and went. The Ravens had picked my gull carcases clean. I had left them on the beach. Not even lungs or kidneys were left in the skeletons. We had enough gear for two trips in the Zodiac boat to Langara Lodge. Wayne took the first load, then came back to pick me and other gear up. Good W wind + dynamic swell (>3 meters), but still not too bad. Both pairs of GWC's at Dogo Head (Fang Bay) and Aphygenia Point were on territory. Looks like Aphygenia Point birds are incubating. We docked at the lodge (having seen several Marbled Murrelets + 8 Tufted Puffins on way past Cox Island (yes-yesterday, I counted 46 Pelagic Cormorants on Cox). Decided, because of wind, to just wait out our plane at the lodge. Took a beautiful shower. Got a tour of the lodge, ate good sandwiches & had coffee. Ah - warmth! Our plane, an old Beaver, didn't leave until 17:15. Old pilot crusty fellow. Because of wind & waves we had to take all the way past the North Island Camp & then skirt between Langara & Lucy Is. Plane was surprisingly stable in waves. We took off, got tremendous views of N Graham Island thru clouds, rain. Pillar Rock and

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Field Notes D. A. Bell 15 June 1990 Norden Harbor were quite clear. Tow Hill, NE of Massett, stood out like a magnet, with a piece of sunshine shining on it. Great plane ride & landing in water at Mossett. Unloaded the plane fast I unloaded our stuff while Wayne paid for the flight. Then we piled it into the car, had a quick & cheap burger [typical Wayne], and he drove me to Janet & Michael Brown's home in Dell. They have a tiny place just south of the Narbun Park headquarters. Janet & Michael put up a tent for me in their yard. 16 June 1990 Up at 08:30, after a long night. Nice day, mild overcast. We decided to go for a short hike over the "flycatcher trail", which starts from the highway N of the Dell River Bridge. Short drive, then hike thru first Alder woods, then along a trail thru mixed hemlock/spruce forest. Beautiful moss forest floor. We heard Townsend's Warbler and possibly Wilson's Warblers. I saw Varied Thrush, Townsend's, Hermit Thrush, Hairy Woodpecker. We came out after about 1.5 km on the N bank of the Dell River, at about where the Dell Lines House Lodge is located. We continued along the Dell River, headed E to its mouth. Past a few calm, Common Mergansers, Ravens,

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Field Notes D. A. Bell 16 June 1990 Semipalmated Plover, Belted Kingfisher (nest in sand stuff), Red-breasted Sapsucker ('t nest in snag + begging young therein). When we hit the beach we turned north for a few km's. Nice day. Good view of an occasional eagle. Went beyond the wreck of the Pascola to a creek about 4 km S of Cape Bill. Hiked back thru the dunes - lots of Winter Wrens, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Golden-crowned Kinglets. Varied Thrush in the forest patches behind the [illegible] dunes. Raven family. Rise fishing feeding, as well as finches, in areas of conifer forest. We hiked back to the Thell River, headed W back to the flycatcher trail. We found an egg, about 4 cm long (=more-shaped), with about 1/3 of its shell gone. A clam egg, probably placed there by a crow. The egg was on a moss, next to the trail, about 1.25 km downstream from the Thell River Bridge, in a spruce/hemlock forest. This trail follows the spine of a forest-covered ridge, set back from the N side of the Thell River, in Nakina National Park. The egg is light green in base color, with minute, soft brownish and bluish flecks. Could it be a Stunned Marlett egg ?! For dinner we had a 4lb Coho Salmon that Langara Lodge had given me. We went to the River Lodge for dessert - saw a Common Merganser with 9 3 week old chicks on

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Field Notes D.A. Bell 16 June 1990 the river. Also saw a Pine Grosbeak. 17 June 1990 Janet & Michael drove me to the museum in Shidegate, then we went to Sandyspit, where they dropped me off at Dave & Anley's. I went with Dave & Les & Evan to a rocky [illegible] beach along Shidegate Inlet. Four member of GWGs in the inlet, possibly breeding on the small rock (20 p.) just N.W. of Sandyspit. Heard Western Flycatchers and saw an eagle swimming in the inlet. It [illegible] literally swam with its wings making good progress getting to shore. I watched it swim about 20 yards, then hop on a rock from the shore, shake itself, and fly off. 18 June 1990 Flight out of Sandyspit at 11:45 to Vancouver.

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