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Journal
32
R.E.Johnson
1968
May 25 Amchitka Island, Alaska (cont.)
on the Aleutians. The Aleutian Tern has only
been reported once from the Aleutians!
Glauconis-winged Gulls - many sit near the
road along ponds on either side of the road
to rifle range point. We stopped to look
for nests & found many empty nests on
tundra tundra mounds & elsewhere. The gulls few
up into large flocks over my head & I was
dived upon twice, suggesting that nests
were in the area.
Drove back to the Camp area & then out
Engineer Rd to Big lake to check the Gull colony
there. Previously we had found 4 nests there,
with (1) (2) (3) (4)
with 3, 2, 1, 1 eggs each. These same nests
now have (1) 3, (2) 3, (3) 1, and (4) 0 eggs. Apparently the
latter 2 are now abandoned since the one egg
was cold, whereas the nests with 3 eggs were
warm.
a Parasite Jaeger, a pair of Greater Scaup, 2
Red-throated Loons, a male Common Teal, & a
pair of Pintail were seen along our route on
Engineer Rd.
After supper I investigated the Rosy Finches near
Old Camp where I live. Several rosy finches were
encountered around old quarant hut along the power cable
running north from Old Camp. They set chirping from
poles & roof tops & eventually 6 Rosy Finches, a pair of Iceland