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- May 29- cloudy
Nothing in traps so picked them all up.
Found winter wren's nest 4' up in side
of rotten root. Contained 5 very young
babies.
Had noticed that the crows on Fred-
erick seemed bigger, and "cawed" rather
than "cahed". So called in a mob +
shot one as a specimen.
At 7 am went out on rocks
in front of camp to search for ab-
olonie [abalone] as a low tide today. No luck.
Collected few Mitilis [Mytilus] [underlined] instead.
In the evening the "Western Trader" blew
its whistle for us. They would try to
call back for us in 3 days but a
S.E.er [southeaster] might disrupt that plan.
While the crew visited the beach we
hunted for, and found, the falcons nest N. [north]
of here. Most odd : simply under roots
at the top of a 60' grassy bank.
Contained 4 large young - pin feathers
just showing.
Two more eagles nests today:
one 70' up spruce on beautiful beach just
N. [north] of here on Graham., second on N. [north] end
of Frederick up dead stub.
Family of wrens just out of nest
Set 100 traps on Graham + 25 on Frederick
May 30 [1961] Dullish
Another abortive attempt for abolonie [abalone]
While picking up traps ran into Athol [Atholl]
S. [Sutherland] Brown + chopper. They were inspecting
costal [coastal] stratigraphy: had just noticed
about 300 sea lion on Joseph Rk. [Rock]
Caught 6 mice on Graham (saw 1 Sorex)
and one on Frederick. One Graham had
faint stripe on belly.
Two trollers came in to the Bay in the
evening. We raced out to see whe-
ther they could give us a lift to Langara
but found they planned to work south
for a few days.
Evening deer hunt a failure. Deer
seem very shy here. Found 2 more
crows' nests: 3 eggs on ground under
small spruce, + 2 large young on top
of 6' stump covered with salal.
Noticed first robin today. Hairy wdpkr [woodpecker]
for sparrows also [words crossed out] sapsucker also about
Crossbills (ww [white-winged]?), siskins, wrens, h. [hermit] thrush,
crows, eagles common.
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