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Dr. Redon - 1942
Celleopi Hummingbird
E. Fork Shop Creek, 5500 ft., King R Camp, Fremida, Calif.
June 2, 1942
neck and running beak down her back; bending neck & preening breast feathers. Scratched vigorously with both beaks & feet (Presence of ectoparasites?) Would look around nervously as attacked upon herself with that long beak. Perched about 6 ft from ground on about one inch from the end of a small live twig. Twig was about a foot from tree trunk & about 10 ft. from nest. Flew then into branch of red tree & then, after hovering about for a second, mounted nest (flew in) facing E.
She had been off nest about 2 min but had been within sight of it all this time & had been preening & scratching. On nest 2 minutes & then off with NW sweep described & drawn previously. Reappeared about 10 minute later in S.W. of nest. Two perched for a while; ind & oldn etc. hovered around, disappeared for a few seconds & then perched on nest edge & fed young. Slid onto nest so far as S.E.4 whiled W.G. wings fluttering-fluttering. No sure here yet, totally closely - left nest & flew NW again.