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  • Cowichan Lake. Jan [January] 31/40 [1940]. From noon until 3:30 all deer were bedded but started to feed if made to rise from their beds by a suspicious noise. At 3:30 found the 2 large bucks with antlers feeding slowly along some bluffs keeping a careful watch below, often standing for 2 to 3 minutes at a time looking out below them + all the time moving up wind. All deer today were bedded on the sunny side of the hill. One buck saw me on all fours. I froze, deer looks hard for 3 minutes, stamps feet + snorts, repeats snorting + tossing head + looking this way + that for 5 minutes or so then moves out of sight. Before this buck snorted the [underlined] other on [one] feeding within a few yards took no notice + did not seem to recognize the attentive attitude of the first. When the first b. [buck] snorted the second one froze + gazed steadily down hill in my direction without raising his head. When
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