Year
Unknown
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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Transcription
no piping. He showed no restlessness until
about 4:30, and after that he did considerable
shifting of his head. Once stood up on the
nest but sat down again without looking
down. At 5:15, as the sun was setting
on the nest, he left the nest, first pecking
at the eggs. I thought the [illegible] was probably
arranging feathers. He seemed very reluctant
to leave, altho obviously hungry. He even
took a peck or two from nest before he
climbed off. I waited until he was out of
sight & went to look at the nest. One egg,
on top of the others, had a hole about
3 mm diameter in it & I saw motion inside.
Two other eggs had pip-marks where the
shell was cracking, and the other two I didn't
get a good look at. The top egg was pretty
much covered by the wind.
Much wind from 4 PM on. No
piping. Red bird went furtively & nervously
down gully when he left nest.
March 18 - Up at nest #1 at 7 AM. Bird on
nest. Some piping down gully as I
approached while but it stopped. Red
bird got restless about 8, left the nest
at 8:30? Went up the ridge, disappeared
into second gully. When it was out of
sight I went down to nest. One egg still on