Fulica, Part 1, v1314
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Fulica americana -77- July 19 Jewel Lake Tulley Park, Central Lake Cali. now turning S towards the boat. S is in the cat-tails at M20.12 and the yng with him spent the last couple of minutes on the fp board floating in M20. 3:04 - S and yng have vanished - no - yng is both on the board preening - B and yng is out of sight but 2 yng are feeding on open water - both at G-23- S is beside the boat - now has moved into the cat-tails. S is alone on the water - at G/12- moving south rapidly (3:08) B is at M20.23 and 2 yng are - or were lying on the board there - now they are both in the water - S "putked" as d I got out of the car. S had moved around E9- and has charged imm. feeding there. They are all in area G6 now - don't know where S is - the yng from G23 moved quickly to cover at M25 when I got out of the car but theyng with B did not respond. S (3:15) is feeding at F9.9, 8 min are feeding in two groups. 1 at F6 the other at H6 - at F6 are P/S, R/S, G, G/B- didn't get tags of other group - now 3:20- they have broken up and are returning to feed at FaG9. S is again out of sight. At 3:27- P/B feeding along cover at H12 took immediate notice when S at F10.9 started "putking" - P/B then slowly but jerky and alert moved on N, still intermittently feeding - while S continued to "putk" - 3:30- P/B is at G/6- no sign of - oh- here comes S at H13-P/B