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T. Code
1958
25 July
Falcon pelegrines
after a peregrine - fox sparrows? -
which went into some willow brush
growing on a steep slope just up
river from the cliff. The falcon then
began making a series of passes just
over the top of the brush rock and
forth, while the tiercel came out
and waited on above her about
150 feet over the brush. They continued
this tactic along the full length of the
brushy slope (c.q. 1/4 mile). No bird
got up. Then both birds zoomed up in
strong wind and gradually drifted back
to the cliff.
No active nest could be found on the
bluff and the falcons put up no defense
as we were climbing about. Indeed,
the tiercel left the area.
#9 aerie: pair of adults seen on the
last bluff on the left limit before Unrat.
Nest on a ledge 30 ft below a brushy
brink 20 ft up on a sandstone wall
above a talus slope that drops 150 ft
to the river. A freshly killed pectoral
sandpiper was in the nest and a single
downy 2+ weeks old - large f. The
adult f was collected and the young