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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