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LIDICKEN
1977
East Lansing Trip - with family
11 June - 12 July
June 11 - to Coffex, Calif., Jr. 1910
June 12 - Drive to Beatty, Nev. (Hank's Motel)
552 mi. from home.
Birds seen Reno to Tonopah :
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
Yellow-billed Blackbird - 15+
Red-winged . . . . - 50+
Brewer's . . . . . . - 20+
W. Marshback . . . . - 2+
B. billed Magpie - 10+
Wh. Int. Raven - 2
T. Vulture - 2
Killdeer - 1
W. Kingbird - 3+
Harold Lark - 20+
Common Teal - 2+
Shoveller - 1 hr.
Gallinule ? - 5+
Eng. Sparrow
Starling - 1
Rock Dove
Also at least 6 Anteospermus lancers with one.
(W.A.Tonopah car overheated with subsequent loss
of power - blew diaphragm - fuel pump.)
June 13 - Beatty to Williams, Arizona (Thurston Motel)
369 mi. Short consideration = Las Vegas
trying to get car fixed, eventually succeeded ~ getting new fuel pump for an '68 Scotch. (Rues at 7'0 S. 1st St.)
Birds seen Beatty, Nev. to [illegible] E.G.Kingman,
Arizona :
Horned Sparrow
Phainopepla - 1 (Beatty) Swamison's Hawk ? - 1
Sparrow Hawk - 1 Prairie Falcon ? - 1
Wh. Int. Raven - 4