Viewing page 100 of 127

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

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

Transcription Notes:
.