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R.J.Raith
1956
Journal
March 30 Mohave River, 1400-1450 ft., Afton region, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
the rail road. I shot it from a screw bean. A few
minutes later another one came down to the river
near camp and Vic collected it. At about 7:30 AM
we, (Vic & I)
drove up
to the river where we had first
collected since he had never been that far upstream
and we worked the area that Imogene and I had
been in the first day - that is the marshy stretch of
stream and the pond against the south wall of the
canyon. We saw nearly all of the same birds
except Vermillion Flycatcher, Gambel Quail and
White-throated Swift. In addition we saw 2.
Rough-winged Swallows over the pond and Vic
shot one from a perch on a Catclaw on the,
edge of the cliff above the pond. Also additional
was a Turkey Vulture circling overhead. The snake
were encountered in the same marshy stretch of
the river although fewer were flushed than on
Wednesday. I managed to drop one of 2 that
flushed from one spot. I also collected a Yellow-
throat and Vic collected one of two Killdeers
seen in the area. We both fired several shots at
Violet-green Swallows but missed. We returned
to camp at about 10 - 10:30 AM. The rest of
the morning and the first part of the afternoon
we spent skinning. We saw another Scrub Jay
fly through the tall Screw bean but were
unable to collect it. During the day we heard