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93
Journal
R.E.Johnson
1968
June 15 Amchitka Island Alaska (cont.)
Checked the Greater Scamp nest of June 4
& it still contains 10 eggs & the q was incubating.
Explored the coast just nw of Tin Lake,
hereafter called Tin Point :
Common Eider - 3 pairs, 1 q
Bald Eagle - pair of a nest on a sea
stack. I was dived upon many times
& 3 times it came within a foot!
Swish!
Parasitic Jaeger - 1 dark phase. Flying
west along coast.
Rosy Finch - 5 adults seen in
usually
intertidal area, on rocks which are
above high tide line.
Hornet Puffin - 5 floating at sea.
Tufted Puffin - 50 approx. Floating in
a large group at sea.
Winter Wren 2
Guillemots - 5 floating 100 yds
out from cliffs.
Cormorant Colony on large sea stack
19 nests were seen. 2 were
Red-Faced Cormorant nests & the
rest were Pelagic Cormorante nests.
One nest had young birds in it.
Jones Lake Census - One male Tufted
Duck was seen. See table for other birds.