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T. Cade
1958
22 July - cont
#1 aerie - The adult ♂ was collected.
#2 aerie - pair present on the first bluff
right limit below Dolamnaganik - nesting
in rough-legged hawk nest (same site as
last year). Nest 10 ft below brink, 20ft
above top of a footing talus 2100 ft
above the river. Two doronies, 7-2♀
about 2 weeks old - primaries tail
showing through down. Adult ♂
was shot as he came in to the nest
carrying a juvenile longspur in his
talons.
#3 aerie - an adult ♀ was seen on the
lower part of the series of bluffs on the
left limit in the town of the river below
Dolamnaganik but no active aerie 2
no travel was seen. The ♀ showed
interest in a recently vacated swan's
nest, but there were no young in it.
There was an active aerie here last
year.
3 July Cohille River - Killik Bend to point ca 1 mi
below double Knife Blade bluff -
#4 aerie - lower Killik Bluff - at 1130 one
of the Peregrines was heard screaming near
steeping at the local pair of rough legs.
One of them was forced down into brush