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July 4 II [[left margin]] !! [[/left margin]] attacker. Just saw a younger chick, no more than a week, also try to crawl under attacker, only brief screaming. 3:05 [[left margin]] !! [[/left margin]]AC after dispute. Followed by M-PAG. (Tail widely spread, synchronized with each moan. Birds still very unsettled 3:12, but chicks are back. [[left margin]] !! [[/left margin]] Chicks do not seem to beg with T. Just pecking at parents' bill. Chicks giving dutiers[sp?} call, head down, after being attacked. (when age of chick not cited, it looks average for colony, ca.2 weeks) chick doing rasping tri syllable DC toward flying bird. Again 3:32 Parent? Again & again chicks being attacked by adults. Birds [[seglet?]] behind blind still refuse to come back 3:40 [[left margin]] !! [[/left margin]] Chick Rasping, given upon rejoining parent and/or being pecked by adult, seems to be accompanied by definite bowing Apparent care of adult pecking its own chick Gulls still as shy as ever, if not more so 4:00 pm 4:10 pm Far too shy to show any behavior. Is the bowing with Rasp D.C. some form of FB? I don't thing so. Still unbelievably shy 4:30 Chick being fed, without M. This same chick, previously, might have shown a trace of T. [[left margin]] !! [[/left margin]] Attacked chicks seldom if ever show the head-down crouch posture observed in the Ring-bill. Don't crouch, just keep screaming & swimming away. FB cry of chicks, and there certainly seems to be one, is short, unlike full Rasp or D.C. Whistle? Brief monosyllable Rasp or DC? Or
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