Field notes, v639
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Field Notes Doug Bell Humboldt Co., Calif. April 8, 1984 - ant view, & in sun most of the rock. . After a couple minutes a fellow drove by & stopped - Mr. Willie Bosco - he asked if I had seen the birds. all of a sudden we saw a falcon fly in from the south across the cliff face & land in a snag up off to the left. It looked like a "heavy bird", with yellowish feet, thick cap & very clean breast & belly. Very whitish -at most faint hints of faded, pencil thin black baring on lower breast. It had a full cap. I looked over the cliff- it looks like the pothole from last year has a spider web glistening across it. Also, funny white stick in right hand corner of the pot hole. Just the falcon flew back to the cliff. Screaming heard, also c-chucking. The falcon landed on a small tussrock at lower right corner of a big pothole- crevass complex to the right of last year's pothole. One bird came out from deep to the right of the large crevass, flew- off & up to snag on right if cliff. The other falcon, that had just landed on the tussrock, hopped behind it, appeared to nibble at something for about a minute, and then walked to the back of the crevass. Meanwhile, the "relieved bird" was on its way, preening. Might be the turkel - but it had definite malar stripe, was more colorful than the other bird; had well defined triangular black barring on flanks, many black teardrops on belly, pinkish breast, and orange yellow cere & legs. I just could not tell from the size if it was male a female. It flew off south, but then came back about 10 min later to land in a snag. Mr. Bosco said he saw both falcons engaged in aerial