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Transcription
T. Code
1958
Falco rusticolus
3 August - food
The juvenile was following. It flew
in close and took the prey in its feet
from the parent bird, left as the turns-
-her was being effected, the juvenile
thooped the prey. Malcolm examined it
and found the back and hindquarters of
a ground squirrel. Later in the day
he saw wolves eating this piece of
squirrel. Apparently the gyps nested
somewhere on the fogged rooftops of
quantzito just north of the lake on the right
limit of the view. The juvenile - a F,
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 but from
the cliff and was even heard skimming
across the river on the 8th,
17 August
Okefisk Lake - one or more seen or
heard on the hill nearly every day
during this period. The light itself
flew over the stubs on 17th to make
pass at my eyas peregrines.
22 August
Jugal Lake - while my eyas peregrine was
flying to the lure, stooping back and forth, about
1800, a large, dark gray juvenile gyrfalcon
suddenly appeared in the air above her. It