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- 2 savannah sparrows, several song
sparrows, 2 sapsuckers, 50 +/- crows
2 spotted sandpipers, some wrens
chickadees + kinglets were all the
birds seen. Found a freshly dead
saw-whet owl + heard 3 others.
Shot 1 Miller [?] bat + Charlie [Charles J. Guiguet] shot 3 of
the same species.
Sandspit. Aug. [August] 26/46 [1946].
Spent nearly all day skinning,
worked the spit at noon + at
8 P.M. with very little seen,
apart from peeps 4 sanderling,
4 Black + 8 ruddy turnstones were
all the shore birds noted. Many
herring gulls. Charlie [Charles J. Guiguet] shot a
yng [young] guillemot + saw a yng [young] murrelet.
In evening shot a Calif. [California] little brown
bat.
" Aug. [August] 27/46 [1946]
Skinned + worked the spit in the morning,
in afternoon worked forest edge for an
hour then took Charlie [Charles J. Guiguet] down to Copper
Bay for a try at those owls. On way
back found a good marsh 3 1/2 miles
S [South] of Air strip (5 miles by road) + returned
to it in the evening. Set 6 museum
traps. Heard owl + saw rat, mouse +
muskrat sign. Saw 2 deer.
Wader migration very slow, saw 60 +/-
westerns, a few least, 3 Sanderling + 15 Ruddy Turnstone
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