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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