Alaska field notes, v4434
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Make 1959 Journal We got back to camp at 4:30, went out at 10:30. Accompanied by Batterman & did considerable collecting for notes. In evening made an oven of 5-gallon gas can + baked a cake in it. Turned out well (to my all day surprise. Overcast, windy cold with Snow-flurries). July 12 Pitmegea River, Alaska Overcast, strato cumulus est 4000 feet moving NE in A.M. Cased area + weighed Parrot #3 + Owl #3, LM of Parakeet was dead. Surprised, there were not the previous warning of this such as bruises on the smaller chick chick; weight loss, etc. Put up the pomeraine jager hawk sheet on the 9th. Went on rest of sound after lunch. Owl #4, Lt.#5, Parrot #2 + Owl #3. Found 1 or 2 of the older chicks missing from each nest. Also noted bruises on Lt. of the longest nest. Shied out + picked up fences from Lt #2, Bom 3+1 + fenced the 2 Owl nests + put a second fence for the smaller chick at the longest nest. Slewed, during afternoon & evening calm. July 13 Pitmegea River, Alaska Made round of Lt #4, Parrot #1, + Pomeraine #2. From here went to Bashol Slough + followed it upstream. Found a Breeze