Field notes, v1444
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LIDICKER 1990 Aug 17 cont. We stopped at Wind Cave Natl Pk but could not get on a tour & the cave so we continued north. In Custer State Pk. we took the 18 mi. Wildlife Rd. & it was dark before we could make it around - beautiful drive well worth the $6 entrance fee. Took US 16 to Custer when we got a motel - with some difficulty. Saw lots of B/I's - tired previous days in the parks & ~50 hison including quite a few lone males. Also saw elk/ponies in several places. Bird(s) seen: Mountain Bluebird - 20+ Western Bluebird - 1 Red-wing (all ♀) - 25+ Corn. Nightherk - 50+ Flicker - saw, yellow-shyked + 1 red-npt. wintergreen Yellow-rumped Warbler - 12+, Brewer's Blackbird - 1 pr. Brewer's Sparrow - 10+ (slender, long-tailed, pined legs, stripe (s) on crown ; some lightly streaked ?) White-winged Junco - 1 + saw. least Western Tanager - 1♂ + 1♀ W. Kingbird - 2+, Barn Swallow - 25+ Red hr. Nuthatch - 1 head, Grasshopper Sparrow - 1, singing 2x Chicken - 1head, Red-shouldered Tanager - 1 ♀ + 1 mgn. w/1 gy, B. Ld. Cardinal. Aug 18 - Left Custer 08:35 & drove E on US 16 to Stokede Lake, th N on 87 & US 385 to 85 to Deadwood to I90 & the W. into Wyoming. Birds noted: Red hr. Nuthatch - 1 D.cr. Cornseed - 2 (Stok. L.) Sora - 2 mgn. (1 bld odding) - Stok. L., Melbnd - 5, Pintail - 1, Left. S. Dat. ~12:07, Barn Swallow - + + Red Squirrel - 2+ + 1 doe. Also chipmunks