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Journal 85
an immature
25 Ang.
Fog in the morning and early afternoon. Rain in the evening.
I stayed in during most of the morning. At about 10:30 Tom came back from his traplines and he reported a hawk in the telephone poles at the FAA station. We went back and found the bird in the general area. It proved to be an immature Rough-legged Hawk. Tom fired one shot at the bird and since it looked like he hit the bird we pursued it in the very dense fog. We managed to get lost for a while, but thanks to the gannage I noted along a lake, which I figured to be Smith Salt Lagoon, we got back to the weasel.
In the afternoon I wrote some letters and I counted some more large Chironomids. Then, at about 15:00 I walked along the shore for an hour, where I only saw Red Phalarope, one Semipalmated Sandpiper and 8 Glaucous Gulls. The wind came from the E, which meant that the ice was too far from shore, and consequently there was little bird activity.
26 Ang.
The wind shifted to the SW during the night. The morning was very mild (I walked around without gloves and with my jacket open). In the afternoon it began to rain, and with few interruptions this continued till the present (23:00).
In the morning I went to the Dunny Area to finish pacing of distances of the nests I located there. This completed the job.