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Maker
1959
Journal
Teamy off the front. After this it became
obvious the gusts were getting stronger.
I managed to get the fly up over the
back of the tent to protect it somewhat.
The wind continued strong with
intermittent showers all day. Towards
evening it died down. I went for a
walk down to Falcon rock in the
evening. Set all my live traps on the
late round. Boat at mouth river, Departed hiking
on east. Wet nature.
July 19 Patimgea River
Wpat 9 AM. A still, calm, warm day,
broken clouds + occasional showers.
Made round across river after breakfast.
Then round W + finally the south
round + so hit all the nests today.
Mosquitoes were quite bad, by far the
worst they have been here. [illegible]
July 20 Patimgea River, Alaska.
Nice sunny warm day with enough
of a B breeze to keep mosquitoes down.
In morning collected the live traps
on ridge + dash them to Loon Slough
+ set them out. Also photographed a few
wild flowers + took some movies of the
loons + chicks. After lunch made a
four ones along N side of study area +
checked on nests 7, 12, +16; all were present
[illegible]
complete
round
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