Field notes, v1701
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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