Field notes, v601
Page 613
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K Dixon 1952 Journal Feb 7. 1 mi. NE Del Valle, 300 ft., Travis Co., Texas - (S) bank of (Colorado River) We worked this narrow fringe of moderate sized timber and fringe of tangled vines, shrubs, grasses from 10:00 to 12:00. Bullfrog heard from bank and 2 frogs (691, 692) taken at edge. Birds seen: Ladder-bkd Wdfthr. Crow Carolina Chickadee Marsh Wren - in cattails Bewick Wren Mockingbird Phoebe Brown Thrasher myrtle Warbler ? yellowthroat Cardinal Spotted Towhee American Goldfinch Savanna Sparrow Lincoln Sparrow 1 taken (693) Long Sparrow. Feb. 8. 4 mi. SW Austin, 500 ft., Travis Co., Texas. CLEAR, CALM. (WINDY after 10:00 a.m.) I worked in bottomland elm and elm-juniper on the Staines farm on Barton Creek, 8:45 - 10:15. See account, Pama atricristatus. After 10:30, I worked juniper - covered slope W of creek and 10:50 - 11:30, the live oak - juniper of Terrace on which buildings are located. I left farm at 12:30. Gray Fox - as I handled wounded Ratmorse in elm near creek, I saw a Gray Fox approaching at a trot through the elm grove which lacked underbrush! The fox stopped about 100 feet from me, then turned and walked away. I was in plain sight and shifted loads in my shotgun although fox did not come