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J. Groth
1986
journal
97.
Colorado, cont'd
1 June Here I drove N from Johnson Village to Leadville on highway 24. Just a few miles S of Leadville I noticed a change in the habitat to become a thicker forest of lodgepole pine with an apparently good cone crop. I drove through Leadville, then N about 2 miles. I inspected the forest here, which was of nearly pure lodgepole and scraggier pinyon/juniper along the river valley at the railroad tracks. The cone crop looked good, but I heard no crossbills around. I then drove almost all the way up to Tennessee Pass and stopped at the place where the railroad tracks come out of a tunnel,
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I stayed here for about 1 1/2 hours, with the decoys on top of the truck. At one point, a type 5 Crossbill flew over and excited the decoys (#s 387, 390) but the wild bird did not stop. Later, I heard again the calls of a type 5 bird,