Alaska field notes, v4411
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Transcription
On the 11th we went over to visit a nesting colony of crows on a small island but all we found was as shy old raven sneaking around some torn up deserted nests; the crows had left. Have over we saw 7 bald eagles sitting on some dead trees that stood out on a point. They were evidently waiting for some thing in the straits. A flock of loons were evidently chasing a school of herring and must have driven the fish to the surface. All at once one of the eagles swooped down caught a fish, let out a shrill scream, and returned to his perch. Within 3 minutes there were eagles coming in from every direction. I counted 15 at once and there were more coming. After a few minutes everything was calm and quiet. The eagles returned to their perches and the loons went on fishing. Yesterday during the storm Mr. Littlejohn went out and got a shot at a large flock of waders. He got 7 surf birds and 3 or 4 Black turnstones. There must have been at least 150 surf birds in the flock. 5 out of the 7 secured were males.