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- Karen Dykes
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- 2021-12-08
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- enclosed with a fence. Captured flightless birds
will provide the stock. I was impressed with
the business like way in which the engineers
made a decision. Before they left it was
decided that they would do the job right away
and that they would find the 160-thousand
necessary.
After lunch we had a short nap +
then went for a 12 mile walk eastward
The objective was to see the nature of
the forest + something of the game birds
We saw 1 hazel grouse 2 [female symbol] blackgame
+ 1 male Capercaille [Capercaillie]. This bird stayed in a
pine top until I went past + then broke
out in flight. It looked as big as a turkey.
I am most surprised to know that they
make long movements during peak periods
sometimes 300 miles or more + moving in
big flocks sometimes flying so high one
can just identify them. They cross the
Gulf of Bothnia in some narrow places
+ pile up along the shore. Some even
cross to Sweden in the north; There is a
return movement but nothing spectacular.
This bird during the winter moves into
pine stands along the margins of swampy
areas + prefers to feed in the very tops
of flat-topped alder trees. In the summer +
autumn it eats a lot of berries. Its winter
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