Field notes, v1379
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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