Field notes, v637
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Field Notes Doug Bell April 6, 1988 proceeding behind the males almost up to her ears. 9:31 - ? shifting on scrape. 9:42 - ? still in snag (C). A hummingbird harassed her a bit. The ? has about a 1/3-full crop. 9:55 - ? took off, circled around in front of rock, passed scrape; mailing - Landed in snag (D), mailing with drooping wings, begging - ? still on scrape. The scrape is just now coming into shade. 9:57 ? still mailing. She appears to have a "dimit" in her breast feathers at the formula. 10:04 ? still in scrape - his yellow-orange eye ring cere are visible. ? still in snag, mailing intermittently. 10:13 ? off the nest - flew to lower branch on snag (D). ? mailing at him from her perch, with hunched shoulders, drawn out wings - mailing just like an eyass. ? sliced, then screamed. 10:16 ? flew in to scrape. While still mailing, she settled on her eggs! I still think the ? has a small clear spot on his lower right thigh. 11:30 - ? left cliff; and of observation. #6:00 Met Matt Nixon and Matt Mollen of UC Santa Cruz Peregrine Fund in Carmelville. We then drove back up to the ranch. Parked behind Goat Rock; Matt Nickson will climb in to the eyrie to take the eggs, if any, and switch them with dummy eggs. The real eggs will be taken back to UC Santa Cruz, where they will be incubated in the safety