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KILBOGEER (OXYECHNUS VOGLFAEVS)
APR 7 Bay Farm Island, Alamcos Co., Calif.
10:AM. SAW BIRD ON NEST - ALLOWED APPROACH OF GROUP TO WITHIN FT.
BEFORE PUSHING. HARD TO SEE BIRD ON NEST, BIRD FLEW 15 FT. THEN GAVE KOWNERS DE-DE-DE CUE RUN
TOGETHER WHILE GROOPING WINGS & SHOWING RUSY RUMP+TAIL COLOR.
THEN PICKED UP INSECT+EAT IT)
BEFORE RUNNING FROM GROUP GIVING WILL-DE CALL HEORS IN NEST OF FEW GRASS BLADES - ROUNDISH-WHITISH WITH AWOEN SPECKLING, GIVING GENERAL GREYISH APPEARANCE AT DISTANCE.
GROUP STEPPED BACK TO ABOUT 20 FT FROM NEST & AFTER FEW MINUTES BIRD RAN UP TO WITHIN 5' OF NEST ON SIDE OPPOSITE FROM GROUP & WENT THEN "BROKEN WING" OR INJURED GET AGAIN LANING DE-DE-DE-DE AS SHE DID SO, THEN RUN BACKGO ABOUT 30 FT. ON OTHER SIDE OF NEST & FACED US GIVING WILL-DE CALLS OCCASIONALLY,
AT 10:15 BIRD APPROACHED NEST AGAIN & SET AGAIN FLEING GROUP
APR 2 11:35AM SAME NEST AS ON APR 7 STILL OCCUPIED. BIRD ALLOWED APPROACH OF DR M/LHHL TO 3 FT. STRETCHED OT HANDS TO WITHIN 6 IN. BEFORE BIRD RISE OFF NEST+WITH SPREAD WINGS GAVE DEE DEE DEE CALLS PLEING DR M/HLHE 2 FT AWAY. Set ON NEST AGAIN & Dr M/lhlh ALMOST TOUCHED BILL BEFORE BIRD ROSE FROM AND THIS TIME LIVING