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Dernay, J.D.
1942
Journal
May 21. Cedar Grove, S Fork Kings R., 4600 ft., Fresno Co., Calif.
(cont.) side to side. Leaves nest after a few minutes,
and returns. Several more times leaving and returning.
Beyond the falls on trail up mountain. Creeper
on sugar pine, going up trunk. High note, "tseep".
Black-throated gray warbler heard. Oregon Junco (?)
heard chipping. Flew across trail and alighted on
small cedar tree. Began picking something from
bark of trunk and branches. Steller jay,
white-headed woodpecker, chickadee, Beechy
ground squirrel heard. Near top of ridge and
on west-facing slope heard pigmy nuthatch,
and dusky grouse booming from opposite slope.
Saw chipmunk run along log, up stump, and
into a hole made by a woodpecker. Peeped out
at us, but remained within until scared out
by thumping on base of stump. Hole was about
10 feet above ground. Saw golden mantled ground
squirrel. Heard Cassin purple finch. Wood
duck flying. Canethus here, low and with long
thorns. Manzanita in bloom. Chingupin with
burs. Fox sparrow heard here, and pileolated
warbler. Red-tailed hawk soaring above canyon.
Deer tracks seen, and mounds left by gophers
under snow. Meadow mouse flushed along
oak bottom.