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June 1, IV

[[left margin]] ! [[/left margin]] partially. Then, finally, sit side by side preening. Idyll is broken up by coot. General scuffle. Everybody in neighborhood involved. When the dust settles D is alone 7:47. Female has not returned by 7:53. 

C2 attacks neighbor with AC, after attack returns to station with brief CC. 8:08.
  
[[left margin]] ! [[/left margin]] Another CC, earlier, given from brief, "low-intensity," but quite definite O.
  
[[left margin]] !!!! [[/left margin]] Have just seen performance at A that does, I think, explain a good deal about the "CC-AC" performance, motivation. A was attacking a coot who had climbed his Muskrat House. Aerial attack. Up and  down. Mostly, but not completely swoop-soar.
[[image]] 
[[labels on image]] Slightly plaintive  "tuh" 
"t" "T" "T" Swoop
"taaauh" (plaintive) Soar 
Just coming out of the Soar, beginning the attack [[/labels on image]]

Things relatively quiescent now 8:24. Sun shining very fitfully. No warmer. Wind the same.
  
[[left margin]] Δ6✓ [[/left margin]] Male U✓, female [[strikethrough]] fem [[/strikethrough]] nothing.
  
Leaving 8:48

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[[image: sketch showing aerial attack pattern]]