Field notes, v1513
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Palmer 1935 Itinerary Parks Creek, 2900 ft., 1 1/2 mi. SW Edgewood, Siskiyou Co., Calif. May 11 cont'd. general seen in the brush; Spotted Towhee, 1 in the brush; Flicker, heard several times from a distance; Hairy Woodpecker, 1 heard and seen in a deal Yellow Pine; Chipping Sparrow, common in brush along the stream and up in the small Yellow Pines; Lewis Woodpecker (seen yesterday but omitted), very common in the pines, oaks and on fence posts in the fields. In the afternoon went up on the hill in the oaks. They shot a Slender-Billed Nuthatch. A new bird seen there was the Black-Throated Gray Warbler. Visited gopher traps again but had caught no gophers. May 12. Took in gopher traps this morning. Caught one & in the 11 traps. Shot a White-Crowned Sparrow, the first seen or heard, in the Ceanothus on the hill & the E of us. A new bird seen this morning was a Wren (Vigors?) which was singing lustily from a Crataegus douglasii. I couldn't approach close enough to identify the bird other than as a wren.