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R Dixon
1947
Journal
July 14.
2 mi NE Cooke, 8500 ft., Park Co., Montana.
ground 25 feet from water. Caught one immature
Peromyscus out of 15 traps in dry forest I denuded
logs. Caught Zapus (no. 157, 158) along
creek in meadow (bordered with scull willow), the
two traps being 30 feet apart.
Left camp at 7:00 AM accompanying H.E. Reynolds
up slope to west of camp. Collected Pink-sided Junco
No 160 at edge of clearing. Took 4 Cassin Finches
in flock feeding in fir trees near road; flock
unusually tame. Went upslope with myself to
berch in Lame - Fir forest where he had found
Blue Grone; none in evidence. Noted pair of
Golden-armed Kinglets in this area.
2 mi N Cooke 9000 ft., Park Co., Montana.
Arrived in meadows above timberline at 7:00 AM.
Walked NW along base of mountain ridge where snow
banks were melting. Meadow dotted with
occasional clumps of Abia and Tenzga. Pipits
flushed occasionally; Mountain Bluebirds seen
high on slopes where only tundra herbaceous
growth + nearly melted willow were found among
the snowbanks. Flushed 3 Black heneoctetes
at edge of melting snowbank. Walked along
ridge for one mile and returned, flushing group
of 3 twice before locating pairs believed to be from
that group foraging on ground below snowbanks.