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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 22
Page Number: 2491

Wright Flycatcher's nest, near camp (75 ft. uphill
from), with 4 young hatched on 14th; found with
opaque eggs two days previously by Dixon and, I
think, photographed by him. Rim of nest 1500 mm.
above ground, nest (of usual construction and
gray color, ensconced among pendent twigs were [sic]
a slender branch from each of two adjacent
red cherry bushes one another, and one of these
has an unhealthy outgrowth of leafage looking like
mistletoe. Nest within to feet, one east side, of
24-inch trunk of yellow pine; snow bushes nearby, and
firs within 20 feet; site practically where a tract
of timber and a hillside tract of open snowbush
adjoins. Male fed young at 3:12 and 3:16, he not
being, apparently, alarmed at us, as is female
which was brooding when we came. Female
continues to utter a faint "peet" of concern; male
from overhead says "see-put" (uttered very rapidly);
when male alighted on edge of nest to feed, he
gave a short musical trill of short duration and
weak in volume. Female keeps close to nest,
perching on twigs within a radius of 4 feet.
She perches on edge of nest; leaves; returns and
settles down to brood, continuing to say "peet",
but more faintly. 3:30 - [female symbol] still brooding
and saying "peet" very faintly and not so
frequently. 3:35 - (female) still brooding, tho nest is in
shade of pine trunk: has ceased to say "pit."