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Child
1958
Ranzifu
7
27 June Patnueza River, Cape Sabine, Alaska
Camera click frighten then but thy
run only a few yards. Changing
sheets of paper alert them also.
One fawn with grey underpants instead
of cream. Rust on top. 1625 not
much feeding. Fawn with lost
mother poured shirt. Herd in
steady movement toward the
river. Most feeding in the tussocks
and sedge meadows. Estimate 5000
to have passed between Owl Ridge since I returned here.
Fawn counts blind, muzzled fawns on
rocks. I could have touched it. It almost
stepped on me, sent rocks slowly down
into blind. Fawn with bumps on head.
Several adults and fawns seen eating
Cassiope. 1635 rain stopping and
the herd is slowing down and doing
more feeding. One big black buck mostly
thin molt has tremendous set of antlers.
The feeding among the tussocks does not
seem to be directed to E. sayanus but
to the stuff in between tussocks.
Another badly coughing one, this one at
1648-50:85 passed in 2 min along a line from here to
Owl Ridge. Herd only feeding slowly.