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- Baldpate [American wigeon]
May 21 Anahim P.O. [Post Office] to lake - "common"
May 25 Mated pair on slough: 2nd [second] [male symbol] attempting to court.
May 27. Watched complex territorial conflict on slough #3.
June 3 Seen defending territory in flight.
June 7. Abuntlet - flight territorial defence seen.
June 10 Alkali flats - in bog birch hummock - 10 eggs - nest #14
June 13. Island. Little Anahim - nest well hidden in Ribes
contained 5 eggs.
June 15 Island nest has 7 eggs
June 16 Alkali flats - [male symbol] chasing a pr [pair] - territorial defense
June 17. Nest #14 - O.K [okay] with 10 eggs, but not covered + eggs
cool.
June 22 nest #14 - 9 eggs - [female symbol] flushed
June 27. nest #4 - 5 uncovered eggs - deserted
nest on Little Anahim Island predated (see [Allan Cecil] Brooks notes)
June 28 Abuntlet Islands: nest of 9 eggs.
July 2. nest #4 - 5 uncovered, deserted eggs. One
egg opened was rotten, with a one (?) week
embryo
July 5. A downy, one of a brood, seen on river near
Anahim P.O. [Post Office]
A brood of 6 day old yg. [young] near camp.
A [male symbol] + [female symbol], to-gether on loating [floating] log in river
July 6. The brood near camp has 7 downies.
July 8 flock of 40 [male symbol] + 1 pr [pair] in Anahim.
July 9. Abuntlet island (see June 28) nest hatched
new nest of 8 eggs (may previously been noted as
mallard)
July 13. On Little Anahim, two [female symbol]'s with broods, one with 7 lg. [large] dy [downies],
the other with 5 same age. The former had at least
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