Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
J. Groth
1987
journal
201.
Adirondack Mts., New York
July 19
(c) got groceries and had a late dinner. Before I (cont'd) got there, I stopped at a place about 20 mi. S of Malone, NY, right along the Salmon River, where I saw 2 white-winged crossbills on the road where they flew up in front of the truck as I drove along. I stopped here and collected a yellow-bellied sapsucker for Ned Johnson: it was an immature ?, testes 1mm, no fat. After Montrose, I drove back into the Adirondacks (at night, while dark) and found a place to hide and camp between Rainbow Lake and Onchiota, New York, at a high point along the road: map:
July 20
At dawn, it was raining off and on, rather hard. There were numerous white-winged crossbills here, "holding territories" by singing, wing fluttering in flight, and chasing in flight. By now, the decoys became less and less excited by the white- wings, and 387 was consistently more
``` RAINBOW LAKL
main road to Onchiota lmi
old field w/ red pine, tamarack, fir
X CAMP
dirt road into woods, uphill