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Wednesday June 16
Arrive Ring-bill colony, Pelican Island, ca 12:30 p.m. Cloudy. Warm. Little wind. Begins to rain almost immediately gulls very shy of blind. Just letting them get used to it at first. Most 12:42 standing in alarm posture with ALC, occas. LCN.

[[in margin-  2 exclamation marks and cross hatching]].  TT often without closing of bill at end of note, sometimes with.

Birds gaping with heat, but still very alarmed 12:52

General panic 12:55, starting at other end of island.  Breaks up fairly rapidly  Think motorboat is cause.  Panics repeated.
Yes. Bob on island.  Left his coat!

[[asterisk]] mates facing one another

[[spiral]] disputes with intruders, or brief disputes with neighbors.

[[xsquare]] toward flying birds

[[triangle]]  post-cop.

[[line]]  long sustained territorial.

Birds far more relaxed, almost comatose 1:07

[[spiral]]  [[underline]] [[check]]U before attack. - [[check]]U after attack. [[/underline]] [[cCheck]]O. [[underline]]  [[cCheck]]TT before attack. [[cCheck]]TT after attack. [[cCheck]]O [[cCheck]]TT.[[cCheck]]TT.[[cCheck]]TT. [[ccCheck]]OLT. [[underline]] [[cCheck]] O before attack. [[/underline]] [[cCheck]]L. [[check]]O.[[check]]O.[[check]]O.[[check]]O.[[cCheck]]OL.[[check]]O.[[check]]O.[[check]]O.[[check]]O.[[ccCheck]]OLTT.[[ccCheck]]OLTT.[[ccCheck]]OLTT.[[ccCheck]]OLTT.

[[in margin: asterisk in a circle, with a red check mark above]]
♂ joins ♀. ♂ does ♀ FC, ♀ T.

[[check mark]] [[xsquare]] O.O.O.O¹³. OL.L.L.OLTT. OTT. OLTT. TT.LTT.TT.LTT.T.

[[cross-hatching in margin, with two exclamation points to the left]]

Silent AC? [[image: A profile of a bird with its beak and its eye open]]

Have seen it about five times,
in different birds

[[image: A profile of a bird with its eye shut, straining forward and its beak open wide--it looks like it is calling forcefully]]

Transcription Notes:
[[spiral]] = drawing of a spiral [[xsquare]] = drawing of an X inside a square [[triangle]] = drawing of a triangle [[line]] = drawing of a solid rectangular line [[check]] = there is a check mark above this word e.g. [[check]]before [[cCheck]] / [[ccCheck]] = there are two / three check marks above this word