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Childs
1958
20
8 July Litunager River, 16 miles SE Cape Sabine, Alaska
High overcast and no wind. Mosquitoes await our
leaving the Tent. Walked to the two ponds down
river. There we found a 9 Pintail and 27
White-wing Scoters and 19 Surf Scoter. I shot one
and broke its wing but we were unable to
get it as it could still dive. There were gulls,
10 Northern Phalaropes, 2 Dovitches, and 6-10
Bartled Sandpipers. On the river were 4
Oldsquaws. At the cliff we found a Rough-legged
Hawk nest with 4 young, 2 of which and the adult
& were collected. The first staged on top range
and a Third Rough-legged came by. The
nest was located about 4ft from where the
Duck Hawk nest was last year. A great
deal of sloughing off had taken place and
there was one soil slips of 30 x 50' with
underlying ice showing. Two Harlequin 99
were on the river. 2 ravens flew over.
Hardly any wind all day long and plenty of
mosquitoes
9 July
Cany day - not feeling well, perhaps due to
tightly rotten caribou meat. Set out two transects in
late p.m. Tried to get Duck Hawks again with
no success. Found the nest to be located about
15 ft away on top of bluff from old nest and it
contained 4 very small young.