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OREGON SKYLINE TRIP
of
Ivan C. Parker
and
Fred Evenden, Jr.
June 25, 1940 to July 7, 1940
Copy of list of birds seen each day, while on this trip.
Breitenbush Lake 5500' June 25, 1940 [illegible]
Spotted Sandpipers
Snipe Robin Red-breasted nuthatch Junco, Clarke Nutcracker,
Dipper, Mountain Bluebird, Chipping Sparrow,
Jefferson Park 5500' June 26th, 1940 Spotted Sandpipers
Chipping Sparrow, Robin, Mountain Bluebird, Olive Flycatcher, Western
Tanagers, Flicker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Snipe, C[illegible] Pileolated Warbler,
Audubon Warbler, and Hummingbird ( got within 2 feet of it. )
+ Rock-breasted Junco - that I saw them on front to Jeff. Lake lookout - 7000' +
Jefferson Park to Pamelia Lake 5500' to 4300' Weather Overcast - June 28, 1940
Steller Jay, Pileolated Warbler, Robin, Mallard Duck, Dipper.
Pamelia Lake 4300' June 29, 1940
Steller Jay, Robin, Wood Duck and brood of small ones, Red-breasted
[illegible]
nuthatch, black throat gray warbler, yellow-bellied sapsucker, dipper and
its young ones. A bird the size of Steller Jay ( slightly smaller ) and about the same color, but it had no top-not.
Was in vicinity with Stellars.
Varied Thrush, Eagle, Pileated Woodpecker, Winter Wren, Nutcrackrr, Junco,
Audubon Warbler, A duck dived on Pamelia from 150 feet into the lake and
whistled so loudly that we were all temporarily paralyzed. ??Ha!
Hunts Cove to Marion Lake 6800' to 4140' July 1, 1940
Weather windy, sultry, thunderstorms to south.
Dipper, snipe, junco, Varied thrush ( lots of them ) Ruffed grouse and
brood of small ones, Winter Wren ( heard song ) Black-throat gray warbler, Pil-eated Woodpecker, Steller Jay, Nutcracker, Red-tailed Hawk, song sparrow, russet-back thrush, and Brown Creeper.
Jorn Lake July 3
-> Marion to Jorn Lake
Winter Wren, Varied Thrush, Robin, Mountain Bluebird, Violet-green Swallow,
Western Bluebird, Steller Jay, Female Western Tanager, Flicker, Rough-winged
Swallow, Nutcrack r, Eagle, Snipe, Junco, California Woodpecker, Purple Finch,
Pine Siskin, Olive Flycatcher, Flicker, Varied Thrush, a Junco with a pretty song, Male Western Tanager, Yellow-Sapsucker, Bush Tit,
I saw my first Oregon Jays. I thought they were smaller. One lit on our table while we were eating breakfast. Very tame. There were two of them.
July 5, 1940
Scaup duck dove into lake this morning.
-Hummingbird--song, and dive fight at Duffy Flats [illegible]
July 6, 1940 Summit of Santiam Pass---Hoodoo Ski Lodge.
Nighthawk, Robin, Hermit Warbler, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Western Tanager.
Francis Matthews, Eagle Scout and Bird Student, Oakland, California