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Field Notes
D. A. Bell
16 June 1990
Semipalmated Plover, Belted Kingfisher (nest in sand stuff), Red-breasted Sapsucker ('t nest in snag + begging young therein). When we hit the beach we turned north for a few km's. Nice day. Good view of an occasional eagle. Went beyond the wreck of the Pascola to a creek about 4 km S of Cape Bill. Hiked back thru the dunes - lots of Winter Wrens, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Golden-crowned Kinglets. Varied Thrush in the forest patches behind the [illegible] dunes. Raven family.
Rise fishing feeding, as well as finches, in areas of conifer forest. We hiked back to the Thell River, headed W back to the flycatcher trail. We found an egg, about 4 cm long (=more-shaped), with about 1/3 of its shell gone. A clam egg, probably placed there by a crow. The egg was on a moss, next to the trail, about 1.25 km downstream from the Thell River Bridge, in a spruce/hemlock forest.
This trail follows the spine of a forest-covered ridge, set back from the N side of the Thell River, in Nakina National Park. The egg is light green in base color, with minute, soft brownish and bluish flecks. Could it be a Stunned Marlett egg ?! For dinner we had a 4lb Coho Salmon that Langara Lodge had given me.
We went to the River Lodge for dessert - saw a Common Merganser with 9 3 week old chicks on