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Field Notes
D.A. Bell
6 June 1990
and peer in. Wayne retrieved 3 young, and I got
the fourth. All from banded 4 green band on left leg
and silver band on r. leg. 3 ??, 1 ? ca. 25 days old.
(?'s fledge 43 d; ??'s 41 d). Also retrieved picked
out 39 Ancient Murleitt, 3 Lessin Skelot + 1
Fork-tailed Storm Petrel from egrie. Also took blood
samples from each chick by toe clipping (end of claw, that
is). Finished with falcons and returned to boat @ 1900.
Ad. tired still screaming. It's been at it all day.
Then we continued N + W around Langara I. As we
departed McPherson Point we heard + then saw an
Ancient Murleitt chick in the kelp. It swamied back
to the rocks - striking black + white pattern. We
hurried over for a look. Wayne noticed it by its 3s-chew-
3s-chew warbling note (means, as they descend to
water they give a 3wcep-3wcep-3wcep call). Bad timing
for the chick to be out in broad daylight. Must
have gotten stuck in log jaws on way out at night.
Wayne thinks if it could make it out to sea
for a mile, its parents might recognize its call.
We checked cliffs between Telegraph Post + Langara
Light Station where we found a single ad. falcon,
on a snag. We motored in, scared it off, but it only
flew a short distance, to land in a tree. We watched it
for about 10 min, then decided to land me to see if
it would become defensive. As we decided to do that,
it disappeared [19:15]. Then on to Langara Light -
Radar Post
Between Radar + Post
Langara Light
Langara Light
I also looked for falcons, but none seen