Field notes, v1670
Page 45
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Strong, 1921. Hazelton, B.C. Alt. 954 ft, Sun. Got a S & x Rusty Blackbird after a hard hunt. Also got a Northern Hairy Woodpeckers. Heard Evening Gros- beaks but saw none. Mosquitoes terrible. Also got a x Purple Finch (Eastern) and saw others. Two Night-hawks (Eastern) were in the barn and I wounded but lost one. Got two Cooted Jays and wounded another out of a flock of three down by the R.R. tracks near the bridge. Went to the movies in Hazelton, and coming back about ten, saw a Horned Owl near the cabin. 113. Tree Toad 114. & Swm. Horned Owl, 1273.2 gms. June 5, 1921 (approx.) June 5, 1921. Alt. 959 ft. (approx.) June 5, 1921. (959 ft. alt.) Stom. cont. remains - bones and hairs of one red squirrel. Sun. [illegible] June 5. - Hunted up in musklog, and in timber back of it. Saw little or way up, got one S Redstart. On the edge of the swamp we got a S Rusty Black- birds, and farther a beautiful Cock?-Bufflel Sparow, which was strutting under a Cedar tree. I went into the swamp, or rather into its thick woods back of it and snaked into where some Pishins were making a lot of fuss over something. Up on the mossy branch of a big Spruce I saw a fuzzy young Great Horned Owl within elow at me. I shot him and another Owl flew off ahead of me which I got with my