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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 14
Page Number: 2588

of the trees are beginning to break down; and the
willows and other shrubbery are bowed to the ground.
The snow melts on the rocks, but is about 5 inches
deep on everything else. A (to me) curious thing
was several peals of thunder this morning, and
thereafter it snowed all the harder.
Altho the stream is much clogged with slush,
birds are congregated there, feeding on insect stuff
they get in the water "weeds", of which there are
cress and chara. Along by camp I have seen
this morning: Brewer Blackbird (a flock of 13,
foraging like waders; I shot 5 of them -- bills very
small; Lamb says they nested at La Grulla meadow);
Intermediate ( or White-crowned) Sparrow (4 or more);
Killdeer (one lone bird); Audubon Warbler (4 or
more, tripping animatedly, flying back and forth
between the drooping willow thickets and the edge
of the stream).
Our packer, Jose, once again solemnly promised
last night to be here "muy temprano" this
morning; so we had everything packed last
night. But of course he won't come now; he is in
a cabin up at La Encantada meadow, and his
stock is scattered no knowing where. I took
in all my traps, but the steels I left out, taking
them up early this morning. A no. 1 Newhouse
under a willow clump on bottom land, produced
a (male sign )grey fox which Lamb will put up.

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