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J. Groth
1985
Journal
44.
June 5 on the eastern edge of the crest near
Crescent Lake. There appeared to be fairly
decent crossbill areas here, but I
took the decoys out only for an hour
or little more from about 9:30 -10:30 am --
no sign of crossbills. Then I continued east
on a forest road which ended up on
Hwy 97 at Gilchrist. Here I drove N
for about 2 miles and went east (right) on
a logging road and drove around and explored
this area. Mainly small and large lodgepole
pine stands here, heavily logged, with some
mixed ponderosa pines. The P.P.'s were not
producing at all here, and probably will
not produce this winter (maybe next year?).
I drove S on 97 to Chiloquin.
On the way, I drove W a bit on a
forest road just S of Beaver Marsh --
an area of lodgepole pines. This could have
been a fair area for crossbills, but
I was there in late afternoon and didn't
encounter any (just an antelope and some junos).
Siskins here.
At Chiloquin I got gas,
called home, and then during the phone
conversation I heard a crossbill fly over
the town of Chiloquin (type 2). The width