J. Groth 1987 journal Spring Creek Pass, elev 10,900 ft, San Juan Mts., Hinsdale Co, Colorado June 5 Chickadee, white-crowned sparrow, (cont'd) red-breasted nuthatch (rare), brown- headed cowbird. I also recorded a Type 4 male crossbill as he sang a fairly long song right in the camp on a small tree. June 6 Today I set out to get some more birds. The morning was not as cold as yesterday, but the sky was much cloudier and red with the dawn. Red crossbills flying over would not come down to the decoys. I made many recordings of birds, but most called in flight or from the top of tall Engelmann spruce -- fruitless to shoot them for they would not fall from the tree. I moved up the hill from the forest campsite to get a better netting locality. I tried up the hill: campsite Hwy 149 steep N x new site dirt road