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Transcription
T. Code
1958
Falco rusticolus
3 August - cout
The juvenile was following. It flew
in close and took the prey in its feet
from the parent fowl, left as the news-
lew was being effected, the juvenile
dropped the prey. Malcom examined it
and found the back and third quarters of
a ground squirrel. Later in the day
he saw voles eating this piece of
squirrel. Apparently the gyrs nested
somewhere on the fogged rooftops of
quartzite just north of the lake on the right
limit of the river. The juvenile - a ?,
apparently has just fledged.
4-8 August - The falcons have been seen or heard
on each of these days. The juvenile
now ranges about a mile out from
the cliff and was even heard skulking
across the river on the 6th,
7 August
O'keefe Lake - one or more seen or
heard on the hill nearly every day
during this period. The light tiered
flew over the tents on 17th to make
pass at my eagles peregrines.
22 August
Jugol Lake - while my eagles peregrine was
flying to the sun, stooping back and forth, about
1800, a large, dark grey juvenile gyrfalcon
suddenly appeared in the air above her. It