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Maclean
1968
Journal
27 June) forgotten how much fun that can be. 3887 white-rumps cavorting around the Micro-Mer buildings, several unpaired plovers, still many pectorals, and reeolls are very common in the South end of the drum area. Resolved to find another golden plover nest and did - a 1-egg nest. Morning was foggy and rainy, but not too cold.
the rain increased in the afternoon so I stayed in to write notes and count and clean tanglefoots. Had a conversation with Brewer re. destruction of turnora; the final straw - fresh tracks thru the middle of tanglefoot site I sometime last night. The result was encouraging - an on-the-spot call to Vinwell re. the Gosewell weasel, and a note to all ARH people. That shot the rest of the afternoon.
After dinner went out with Pete to run the traplines and weigh eggs. Weighed the turnstone and plover eggs by III-B, although I don't know how far along they are. By IV A-B found 2 phialdrape nests with 3 and 4 eggs; weighed these. On the way in took 500 samples from flat and trough system on ridge South of FAA. Had to pull a village weasel out of the turnora device, then in. Put 500 samples into extracts, then drove our to shooting station. Saw an osquaw and pintail nest ca. 15 m. apart on