| S2 Page 24Collector: Grinnell-1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: June 19
Page Number: 2479
and the structure is ensconced in a tangle of dead
twiggery in part supported by slanting ceanothus
cordulatus stems - in a thicket of same - well shaded
by green leafage above.
9:30 a.m. - Just followed a Ruby-crowned Kinglet's
"yerruping," and found a pair upon the summit of a fir
assaulting vigorously a Blue-fronted Jay. Nearby, a (female)
Western Tanager was flying about and at another jay
in the top of a fir. One of the Blue-fronted Jays
seen plainly was a full-grown young-of-the-year.
10: a.m. - Mrs. G. just found a Yellow Warbler's nest,
8 feet up, saddled on crossing stems in midst of
willow thicket on meadow - perfectly typical site
and construction for the species. Contents, 2 fresh eggs.
10:45 a.m. - Across the highway from camp, on a portion
of Battle Creek Meadows that has had no cattle on it yet this
year; grass and flowers a foot high; blue camas abundant
in places; here and there clumps of willow; and many
lodgepole pines, singly now and then, or in tracts.
Birds I hear are: Western Meadowlark, two in full song;
Robin, 2 or more in song; Lazuli Bunting, 2 singing;
Warbling Vireo (one singing); Audubon Warbler (a (female) close
by in a l-p pine); Calif. Purple Finch (one singing);
Junco (one singing); Traill Flycatcher (pair close to me,
and Mrs. G has seen one carrying a billfull of
something into the midst of a willow thicket and in
investigating); Lincoln Sparrow (a singing male
centers within 3 acres about us). | S2 Page 24Collector: Grinnell-1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: June 19
Page Number: 2479
and the structure is ensconced in a tangle of dead
twiggery in part supported by slanting ceanothus
cordulatus stems - in a thicket of same - well shaded
by green leafage above.
9:30 a.m. - Just followed a Ruby-crowned Kinglet's
"yerruping," and found a pair upon the summit of a fir
assaulting vigorously a Blue-fronted Jay. Nearby, a female
Western Tanager was flying about and at another jay
in the top of a fir. One of the Blue-fronted Jays
seen plainly was a full-grown young-of-the-year.
10: a.m. - Mrs. G. just found a Yellow Warbler's nest,
8 feet up, saddled on crossing stems in midst of
willow thicket on meadow - perfectly typical site
and construction for the species. Contents, 2 fresh eggs.
10:45 a.m. - Across the highway from camp, on a portion
of Battle Creek Meadows that has had no cattle on it yet this
year; grass and flowers a foot high; blue camas abundant
in places; here and there clumps of willow; and many
lodgepole pines, singly now and then, or in tracts.
Birds I hear are: Western Meadowlark, two in full song;
Robin, 2 or more in song; Lazuli Bunting, 2 singing;
Warbling Vireo (one singing); Audubon Warbler (a female close
by in a l-p pine); Calif. Purple Finch (one singing);
Junco (one singing); Traill Flycatcher (pair close to me,
and Mrs. G has seen one carrying a billfull of
something into the midst of a willow thicket and in
investigating); Lincoln Sparrow (a singing male
centers within 3 acres about us). |
EN