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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.