Field notes, v1474
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1938 June 26 Jumalo Creek, 15 mi. W Bend, 6100 ft., Deschutes Co., Oregon This site is close to Jumalo creek near its headwaters. The immediate vicinity is called Tunolo Meadows. About camp are a series of soggy meadows through which pass small brooks to the main stream. The meadows have obviously been the wintering grounds of gophers. the winter mud cylinders form extensive networks over most of the meadows with here and there old winter nests of five spars. Some of these seem to be microtus vorts, probably of M. Richardsonii which is fairly common here on the small meadow brooks. Their workings and large trails being everywhere. Snow patches and thawing banks are all about us but Yellow-ley Frogs and Hyla are breeding extensively. Went down stream in the morning and swung N. then back to camp. The forests below camp are a mixture of Lodgepole Pines, Hemlock, and Red Fir with an occasional white fir. I looked a hawk early in the morning, probably Swainson Hawk, Red breasted Withatch Chipping Sparrow and Juncaos as very common. Woodpeckers surprisingly few. Heard Sapucker, Williamson, and Hairy Woodpecker several times. Caught a glimpse of a Whiteheaded woodpecka Mosquitoes here are just starting their season. They are plentiful but somewhat boggy and harmless. Birds don't respond to Pueing Owl calls very much.