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original bench.
Tule Wrens and Yellowthroats were both
heard singing.
May 18, 1935
Caught one Reithodontomys and a Peromyscus
in traps set along a small ditch for Shrews. Shin-
ered in the morning and left later with Aldrich to
hunt Mamots in the hills north of camp.
While passing the marsh we stopped to photograph
a Cinnamon Teals nest found by Davis the
day before. We walked around the marsh
awhile then did a little wading in places
favorable for nests. In one place I was
able to see 10 Tule Wrens nest from one
spot, within a radius of about 25 feet.
We found a Red Winged Blackbirds nest
in the tules with one egg. The egg looked
very similar to that of a Brewer Blackbird.
We flushed several Black Necked Stilt
from the same spot I found them the day
before. In the same place intermingling with
the Stilts were Cinnamon Teal, a pair
of what we thought were Gadwall,
and two Wilson Phalaropes. The Phalarope
were very confiding allowing close approach
and consequently we were able to get very
good looks at both the brightly colored
female and the dull colored male.
We found a young Cinnamon Teal evidently
about 4 or 5 days old in the tall grass
and managed to get his picture.
We followed a pipe-line to a point where
two large springs gushed from a rocky
embankment and after a couple hours of