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Maclenn
1966
now, I think, 3 pairs of golden plovers
in polygons between family lagoon and
micro - wet. Population of these has
picked up markedly of late. Mike found
one of these nests. Found an (I
think) Old Squaw nest - only 7 eggs,
the. Bird flew up in my face, then
over ground and disappeared over rim
of Honeybucker lagoon.
After lunch went out to West
end of Beach Ridge West of Micro-Mer
to set our tangle foot traps - strips
of masonite 10cm x 10cm - covered with
sticky resin and set into soil even
with surface, then covered with
"quarces" of chicken wire for protection.
Hopefully, surface active insects will
walk onto the surface so that we can
obtain relative numbers by harvesting
these traps. Set our 3 in meadow
funora and 3 on drier ridge funora.
As we were doing this Weaver
came over to kibbitz, and reported a 1
egg nest he had scried up on the way.
Went to check it - a bairdi's, it is, then
found a 2 egg bairdi's nest 40m,
from that. Also stalked a completed
golden plover nest and a 1 egg