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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800 ft.
Date: July 2
Page Number: 2516

we came. The four young are saved in formalin:
6282 Hammond Flycatcher, 4 small young under this number.

Other birds seen on the big meadow this forenoon
were: Vaux Swift (3 flew close over the tree-tops);
Tree Swallow (twittering young in company of adults
were flying about over the open part of the meadow);
Western Bluebird (a family on fence and in meadow).

July 3
5 p.m. - With the family on Turner Mountain, the highest
elevation immediately south of Battle Creek Meadows
- altitude "6300 feet", according to Mr. J.M. Stark,
in winter a school-teacher in Corning, for the
three summer months Forest Service Lookout on this
Mountain. From here, we get a grand view (after
a thunderstorm - 43 lightning strikes counted by
Mr. Stark - earlier this afternoon) of Brokeoff Mt. and
Mt. Lassen, and the vast surrounding timbered
mountain mass. On the north side of this mountain
is a perfect glacial cirque (a residual snow bank
under its rim now) with a series of hummocky moraines,
and two lakes impounded. A few scrub red firs and
two or three alpine hemlocks and mountain pines straggle around the uppermost
rim; below, around the lakes, are close stands of hemlock and
lodgepole pines, the timber elsewhere above about the 5500
contour being red-fir. But the greater portion of
the area in the vicinity of the top, is covered
densely with chaparral. Right here on top
this chaparral is wind-beaten but dense, and