| S2 Page 58Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 30
Page Number: 2511
I have yet seen this year. They were about fir logs
in semi-open chinquapin-snowbush association, with red fir
growing scatteringly all about. This is evidently
not a good squirrel year; for instance, in all
today's trip I saw no chickaree, and only heard
one at a distance. Even chipmunks are scarce;
as I recall, I saw no more than 4 all day (amoenus),
and rarely is even a chipmunk voice heard.
At about 6000 feet, I saw a Sharp-shinned Hawk in
flight thru the white firs near a willow-bordered
meadow.
6275 Calaveras Warbler [male symbol] ad. testes - [testes illustration] 8.3 g, Shot from topmost
twig (dead) in a clump of dwarfed Sierra maple surrounded
by ceanothus velutinus and chinquapin. Red firs and
lodgepole pine nearby; 7000 ft. alt.
6276 Clark Nutcracker [female symbol] ad. 134 g. In midst of annual molt.
Long past breeding. Shot from red fir at 7500 ft.: I
heard nutcracker calls up on an adjacent ridge rather
distantly and gave my bluejay call (Kochwish) several
times, when this one old [female symbol] came down to investigate.
The rest called nasally for sometime but wouldn't
come down. There were alpine hemlocks about, so
I was close to the Canadian-hudsonian belt of
mergence.
Referring to the Calaveras Warbler again, I at
first confused the songs of this and Tolmie Warbler.
Indeed, I find I have had to learn over again
several of the bird voices I knew well during | S2 Page 58Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 30
Page Number: 2511
I have yet seen this year. They were about fir logs
in semi-open chinquapin-snowbush association, with red fir
growing scatteringly all about. This is evidently
not a good squirrel year; for instance, in all
today's trip I saw no chickaree, and only heard
one at a distance. Even chipmunks are scarce;
as I recall, I saw no more than 4 all day (amoenus),
and rarely is even a chipmunk voice heard.
At about 6000 feet, I saw a Sharp-shinned Hawk in
flight thru the white firs near a willow-bordered
meadow.
6275 Calaveras Warbler [male symbol] ad. testes - [testes illustration] 8.3 g, Shot from topmost
twig (dead) in a clump of dwarfed Sierra maple surrounded
by ceanothus velutinus and chinquapin. Red firs and
lodgepole pine nearby; 7000 ft. alt.
6276 Clark Nutcracker [female symbol] ad. 134 g. In midst of annual molt.
Long past breeding. Shot from red fir at 7500 ft.: I
heard nutcracker calls up on an adjacent ridge rather
distantly and gave my bluejay call (Kochwish) several
times, when this one old [female symbol] came down to investigate.
The rest called nasally for sometime but wouldn't
come down. There were alpine hemlocks about, so
I was close to the Canadian-hudsonian belt of
mergence.
Referring to the Calaveras Warbler again, I at
first confused the songs of this and Tolmie Warbler.
Indeed, I find I have had to learn over again
several of the bird voices I knew well during |
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