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Transcription
A M Verleek
1966
Journal 16
NE of the mouth of the Slough I saw two birds, which appeared
like Sandpiling, but they lacked the tanney color around the
neck and head, so I thought them to be Rufous-necked
Sandpipers. The male of this pair went thru a strange
wrenching behavior. On my way home I noticed a
pair of Peetoral Sandpipers.
In the evening Ritilka and I went out to the Drum Area
again where we noticed several pairs of Sandpiling. We
also heard the Peetoral.
18 June. Got up early and left for the field... between Honey Bucket
and South Salt Lagoon. The turnstones out there were as
waxy as ever. I tried locating nests by going into
an empty cabin and peeking thru the windows. I still
have not found the nest, but I did put out some tentative
stakes. There was little else to be seen, besides Red backs
and Barnido and Semipals.
I restaked three longspur nest and numbered them 1, 2, 3
with respectively 6, 5, 4 eggs.
In the afternoon the three of us went to Gasline Bridge
were Ritilka and Tom set two lines of trap for lemmings.
By the way, saw the first two lemmings yesterday. One
swam across a small puddle and a second one was on the
Drum area. While the traps were being set I walked around
the triangle formed by Gasline Bridge to see what birds
were out there. There was one pair of Golden Plovers, who appeared
to have a nest there, 3 pairs of Red Phalanges, 3 pairs of Barnido
and about 7 pairs of Red backs.