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W. GULLION
1950
Fulica americana 4/10
May 10 Lake Temescal, 420 ft., Alameda Co., Calif.
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threatened to churn as I looked one to the
new platform which seems to be develop-
ment than the one at K7.4. The new
platform is at K7.8. 5:36 p.m. a bird is slapping its foot on that plat-form. Two unmarked birds were out from there, and at least one of them was not the SE ♂, I think one was the SE ♀, curious to see what the M♀ was fussing about. That M♀ sure is noisy in her K7 bolovich.
5:43 p.m. as I approach Q22, both birds are off the nest. The ♀ was S and followed me up from about P17 as I came, 'pooking' as she came along. The E ♂ may have been on the nest, at least he was in the nest clump and came out as I approached. Egg #4 hatched
34.2 x 51.0
yng partly clipped L2. Egg #1.
#5- mm.
#7-
x
35.7 x 41.4
60.5
mm. #2- 34.3 x 49.5 and pipped.
All 3 hatched yng are in the nest clump.
As I worked in the nest clump the parents proceeded to move the yng down the lake to P17, the ♀ staying there to take care of them. 6:05 p.m. the ♂ is in the nest clump with 1 yng, a 2nd yng is at Q25 moving out into the open water, while the ♀ has the 3rd yng down S. As the ♂ 'pukes' the lyng moves N toward the nest clump, having moved out to P20. Then the ♂ came out to about P21.7 to escort the