Field notes, v1513
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Palm 1936 Wineway Jun 13 contd. low SE summit saw Benito Mtn. (cont'd) 1/ Fairy Woodpecker, 1 White-breasted Nuthatch in the conifers. Hunted slightly to the west & into a brushy little canyon with a small stream in it. Here in the chaparral, I shot a Spotted Forther, 1 Black- Throated Gray Warbler and 1 Bewick Wren. The 2 mole traps caught nothing. Shot 2 chipmunks when I went to examine mole traps. June 13 Hunted birds this A.M. up the same little canyon SW of camp where I was yesterday. In the conifers shot 1 Green-backed Goldfinch of a pair which was flushed in the Topogam Incense cedar near the stream. Sat down by the creek at the edge of the brush & counted 15 birds within 20 feet of me, inside of 1 minute. These were: Spotted Forther, 2; Bush-Tit, 5; Western Gratecatcher, 3, Bewick Wren, 2; Wren-tit, 2; Small Flycatchers (Empidonax sp.) 1. I shot the flycatcher. Shot a Bewick Wren a little further up the canyon & on looking up after wrapping it saw a Black-chinned Sparrow in a nearby Ceanothus and shot it. At the head of the creek, came out on a sort of plateau which is fairly level & brush covered with Scrub-olive predominating and 'Mangarita, Ceanothus cuneatus and a few small