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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