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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Canoa, 6500 ft.
Date: Oct. 16
Page Number: 2591

call this transition zone verging onto Upper Sonoran.
Mole sign is very abundant this morning on
the gravel floor, as also gopher sign. A Mole
worked under my bed and under the tent last
night! Merriam Chipmunks are out bright and
early this morning. Birds noted this morning:
Cabanis Wdpkr (2); Red-shafted Flicker (1 heard);
Calif. Jay (2 or more heard); Raven (5 or more);
Slender-billed Nuthatch (heard); Pigmy Nuthatch (common);
Chickadee ( heard continually); Audubon Warbler (heard);
Wren-tit (several); Townsend and Sierra Juncos
(a mixed flock foraging on ground on hillside);
Bluebird (8 or 10).
Oct. 17
6:30 a.m. -- We got back to the Meling ranch at San Jose
at 4 yesterday afternoon - a rather quick trip down. Coming
thru Los Encinas Primeras ( including the lower canyon
called La Jolla) was most interesting. Lamb stayed
to collect -- with results successful. That is a
typical Upper Sonoran live oak association, and
would doubtless merit protracted attention - a Northern
California representation As I rode thru I
saw: Calfi. Jays (many); Spotted Towhee; Calif. Woodpecker
(at least 5, and much tree-trunk storage seen);
Red-breasted Sapsucker (heard two in the heavy willow growth in
the canyon bottom); Green-backed Goldfinch; etc. Coming
along down, I saw numbers of Fox Sparrows of various
shades of brown on backs. I have no doubt but

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 6500 ft.
Date: Oct. 16
Page Number: 2591

call this transition zone verging onto Upper Sonoran.
Mole sign is very abundant this morning on
the gravel floor, as also gopher sign. A Mole
worked under my bed and under the tent last
night! Merriam Chipmunks are out bright and
early this morning. Birds noted this morning:
Cabanis Wdpkr (2); Red-shafted Flicker (1 heard);
Calif. Jay (2 or more heard); Raven (5 or more);
Slender-billed Nuthatch (heard); Pigmy Nuthatch (common);
Chickadee ( heard continually); Audubon Warbler (heard);
Wren-tit (several); Townsend and Sierra Juncos
(a mixed flock foraging on ground on hillside);
Bluebird (8 or 10).
Oct. 17
6:30 a.m. -- We got back to the Meling ranch at San Jose
at 4 yesterday afternoon - a rather quick trip down. Coming
thru Los Encinas Primeras ( including the lower canyon
called La Jolla) was most interesting. Lamb stayed
to collect -- with results successful. That is a
typical Upper Sonoran live oak association, and
would doubtless merit protracted attention - a Northern
California representation As I rode thru I
saw: Calfi. Jays (many); Spotted Towhee; Calif. Woodpecker
(at least 5, and much tree-trunk storage seen);
Red-breasted Sapsucker (heard two in the heavy willow growth in
the canyon bottom); Green-backed Goldfinch; etc. Coming
along down, I saw numbers of Fox Sparrows of various
shades of brown on backs. I have no doubt but