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20 June 1969
CaƱa de Santa Clara, 5300'
but no nest sites evident. Eids found fledgling Rock Wren at foot of cliff! veg.
Red flowers on ocotillo; long yellow + purple flowers blooming on yucca. | Acorn Woodpecker - one flew from hole only 5 ft. up in trunk living small-leaved willow; deep newly dug hole; trunk 12" diam, right alongside edge roots. | High to 50', pathlder w white rock. Camp + .7 mi,
now cattle guard. Another Acorn Woodpecker at in nest hole in small-bowl
willow trunk , 10' up. Camp + 1.4 mi, beside house nr. big cottonwoods.
Again, Acorn woodpeckers in holes in living small-leaved cottonwoods, 56-90 ft;
only 6' ups. Camp + 3.2 mi, junior's step ridge to N and S. Slope of grass, rocks,
and scattered oaks. Occas. saw a bluebird, Vermillia Flycatcher, Robin, or Brown
Tanager from road. Main shub in bottom is peid-torcel shrub. Saw lornit.
Pair Hepatic Tanagers in oaks, flat bottom. Camp +5.5, coltguard at
Cimarron settlement; 5700'. Ash-throated Flycatchers in the big wood (2).
About 6 House Sparrows seen in town. | Red-eyed Cowbird (G's oid). | Black-
headed Grosbeak. Above saw no Stellar Jays below Cimarron; some extra-
clear reacher that level and higher. |Above Cimarron, Green-bodied Bellfly
near road. Above town 3.4 mi., don to N is dry - no water in streambed; oces
wild yellow-peins (about 6200'). Alligator junipers. Some catclaw dog wood,
to G tell. Scarlet Baronetina in flowers. Chipping Sparrow singing in oaks
(2). Bustitis seen (2). |6300', 6 Mexican Jays, 1 Hepatic Tanager, 1 Flchee. Som
modern tree. Above town 4.5 mi., 6350'. Scattered juniors on S slope. Green
pinyon covers dry road. Often saw a chipmunk or rock squirrel. Olive
wood thick, in ravine bottom. | We came to hillside dry grass to N, where
3 roguettes in yellow flowers. On single stalk, 2 mockingbird, Scott Oriole,
2 lunnier (Broad-tailed), C. Kingbird, & possibly F. Dolon, at some time. On
another, Acorn Woodpecker, Rivoli Hummingbird. Again, Acorn Woodpecker +
Scott Oriole on one plant. There about 6400', open hillside near scrubby