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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