Field notes, v1539
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R.J. Karr 1956 Journal March 29 Mohave River, 1450 +/- ft; 5 mi. E+ /mi: N Midway, San Bernardino Co, Calif. hundred yards short of the end of the road. The area is a clearing in the screwbean thicket and is about 15 yards from the road on one side and the same distance from the river on the other side. The tall Screwbeans afford fairly good shade at most times of day. At about 4 PM Vic and Imogene and I drove back upstream for about 1/2 miles and hunted along the stream just a short distance downstream from where we had been this morning. The vegetation is very similar. We saw Phainopeplas, Verdins, Myrtles, and Audubon Warblers Marsh Wrens, Killdeer, Gambel Quail from a thicket of Arrowweed. Vic collected a g Phainopepla but I didn't shoot anything. Vic walked back toward camp while Imogene and I went over to the road and got the car. When we were recrossing the river I somehow got partly off of the wooden bridge & got hopelessly stuck. We enlisted the aid of the boy scouts and their truck but were unable to get the car out after about 2 hours of work so they gave me a lift out to Mt. Afton where I got a tow truck to come down & lift up the rear end which was hung up & then we pulled it out with no trouble. There was no damage to the car except a sprung right rear shock absorber. I didn't get back to camp to get dry and get dinner until about 8:30 and that effectively ended the day for me. Hyla regilla is calling all around camp but no other vertebrates heard.