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June 9-10, 1962, China Flat Campgrmd, and hills to NW, Silver Fork, Eldorado Co. Calif.
A terrifically loud and long dawn chorus - 4:15-5a.m.PDST
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 near camp
Vaux Swift - 2 heard and seen above tree tops and slope west of Silver Fork- 8 p.m.
Red-shafted Flicker - 3 or 4
Red-breasted Sapsucker - 2 seen
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 4 seen
White-headed Woodpecker - 1
W. Wood Pewee - few, called both early and late in day
Clive-sided Flycatcher - called during better part of day except very early and late.
Tree Swallows - 1l-16 over China Flat meadows, mostly in p.m.
Stellar Jay - several pair.
Mountain Chickadee - 1 pair seen
Brown Creeper - 1 on higher woods.
Robins - several around, and singing and calling early and late
Townsend Solitaire - 1 adult flushed from nest with easterly exposure on NE slope
just 5' from small creek in heavy fir forest canopy, with much fallen debris
on the slope and in the creek. Nest on ground 1/3 exposed, but mostly under
dirt and limb overhang. Nest had outside diameter of 10