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V. GULLION
1958
Eulua Americana
371
May 2 Lake Temescal, 400 ft., Alameda Co., Calif.—
right the first time when I thought I
had the ♂. The tagged bird worked over
by the next clump and then was lost
Trucks of. 4:12 pm—now the bird on the nest
is facing E. 4:27 p.m.—a bird sitting tight
at J6.5 while a tagged Malled Drake
is feeding at J7.17. 4:33—the mated
last bird (♀) charged out to M17 to
chase back 2 invading birds, one
marked the other one not. I suspect
this is the W pair since the M bird
is a ♂. By 4:36 they were working
back in towards P16 again, got to
N15 before being chased out again at
4:38 to about L14. I had to drive
to escape the assault of the splattering
charger. At 4:40 the M-W bird attacked
WLBE at about J15 and chased to J17.
The tagged E bird is on the nest,
the change having been made between
4:12 and 4:33 p.m. Now 4:44, the
tagged bird is off the nest, sitting nearly
silently in the cat-tails, as two dogs
jump around me on shore. 5:59 the
tagged bird is back on the nest while
I went down to the N end of the lake.
At 5:01, the E♀, "psoonking" and
"punk-unking at P16 as I approached.
So the bird on the nest is definitely the
tagged ♂. I shall have to change my
record accordingly. 5:09 another
chase, sent with the E♀ moving out
from P16 holding her head upright most
of the time, and only once or twice—
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