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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Lassen Section (Mineral)
Date: June 15, 1925
Page Number: 2467

Heard a Black-headed Grosbeak in full song in
willows, with twinkling aspens and lodgepole pines on
either side!
11:30 a.m. - A female Audubon Warbler gave us
a long chase. No male at all put in an appearance.
The female showed wild solicitude, suddenly appearing
as we went under some lodgepole pines at the
edge of a meadow. I supposed a nest near, so
for fully 20 minutes we kept her in view, she going
to the tree tops, at times almost out of sight, then
back down near us. Then I began to circle
about; and when I got near a certain thicket of
very small pines and willows, the bird came within
ten feet of me, and went thru with an elaborate
display to distract my attention. She spread her
tail fanwise, showing the white spots to greatest
effect, and quivered her partly spread wings, topping
over backwards at the same time, as if unable
to hold to her perch. For an instant I thought
her foot was caught in the forking twigs! Of course
there must have been partly fledged young in the
low vegetation somewhere, tho we did not hunt
for them. Certainly there was no nest close by.
Heard a Meadowlark in full song out on the
big meadow at 5:45 a.m. Considerable frost
at that hour, even up 3 feet from the ground
on the leaves of ceanothus. On way to store
saw a pair each of Western Bluebirds and Tree Swallows.

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nbahet

unknown1 - verb of some sort, presumably. I thought it was "went," perhaps, but it's too hard for me to read.

kcorriveau

Changed unknown1 to "went"