23 July Patnegaclion, 12 in SE Cape Soline, Alaska wary and with a weak, pitiable voice. He made only one pass at Merle. Many good shots with 12 ga. #2 but could not kill either adult. I have never seen birds harder to kill. This nest closer to the top than the last but it has a much smaller platform, about 1' across which may be the reason there is only one young left. The others may have rolled or been kicked out. It would have been easy for the dead young to have climbed to the top and been ignored by parents. The one young left in the nest had more down than any of the young in the first nest yet it gave the jump with feet forward which the smaller young did not do in the first nest. No sticks were used in 2nd nest and a relatively thin layer in the first. This contrasts with the large mounds of sticks in the old nests seen at Cap A. at nest 2 adults scolded nearly all the time we were there, even when I got up in middle of the night for a P call. Both were heavier by the time we left. After several shots all adult been very