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  • Canada Goose. [underlined] Talbot Lake. May 23, 1946. Today made a waterfowl survey of the western end of Talbot Lake - east to mile 19. Found 3 goose nests, 1. One with 3 eggs + a nest containing no down. One a tussock on an islet 2 Another containing 4 eggs in a down lined nest. 3 A third contained 7 eggs in a down lined nest on top of an old beaver lodge. All these clutches hard set. 2 broods of downies 5 in each brood. May 24/46 [1946]. Checked the eastern half of Talbot Lake + found 12 goose nests. 11 of these had hatched + one had apparently been robbed. Also saw a brood of 6, one of 2, 1 of 5 and one of unknown size. In most instances an islet supported just one nest but one large islet had 2 nests 110 yds [yards] apart Jasper, Alta. [Alberta] May 31/46 [1946] At big meadow at Decoigne saw 12 pairs of geese definitely mated but behaving as it they had had their nests flooded out. One pair has a nest in the Osprey nest at mile 13.
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