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R.J. Raitt
1956
Journal
Jarbidge area, Elko Co., Nevada
June 6
area a male Broad-tailed Hummingbird was buzzing around feeding upon Indian Paintbrush.
I work upstream on this southeast slope among the Mountain Mahogany and Aspen and saw and heard singing numerous Orange-crowned Warblers, Tolmie Warblers and Warbling Vireos. After working upstream about 1/2 mile I recrossed the stream and rather quickly made my way down to the truck reaching there at about 10:50 AM.
On the way back I saw a Rubber Boa in the moist dense herbs next to the stream, a Racer (Coluber) in some sage and grass near a rock slide on the south-facing slope, a singing male Lazuli Bunting and a male Western Tanager in the riparian shrubs. After I got back to the truck I worked around the main river for a while and collected a female (lactating) Cottontail and a female Tolmie Warbler both in willow thickets. In shrubs (willow I think) on the edge of a large meadow a male Lazuli Bunting was singing. As usual spent all of the afternoon and most of the evening skinning. The temperature was not cold in the evening and the Swainson Thrushes were singing in numbers and frequently until nearly complete darkness. The weather early in the day was cold, probably accounting for the few number of birds seen.