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De Benedictis
1964
10 June Wymau Creek, White Mts., Inyo Co., Calif.
Creek. We worked along this first area for
some time, then moved gradually down the
canyon. I saw 2 more Calliope hummingbers
and we saw and heard 1 or 2 more Broad-tails.
No more juncos. The Empidonax here all
except 3 or 4 seemed to be Gray Flycatchers,
giving a sharp "wheat" or "whit" call note,
plus a loud "dee hic" call and the usual
"chew weet" song, some of its syllables being
sharper than birds I have heard at Bora. The
absence of Thail Flycatchers is most surprising
but the willows give directly to sage, not years,
and therefore is like Bora (instead of the grassy
meadows where I usually find trailbirds).
As we worked further down the bristle-cones,
gave way to Prigons and jimpers (at 6500
feet). Nutcrackers remained common in this
habitat, and we began to hear Steller's Javy
(1 Scrub Jay also). Broad-tail Hummers
were very common here - saw 3 or 4 at once
and heard them everywhere we stopped.
At one point we stopped and I heard an
odd chip note, like a Noolville W., and in the
wilows formed a Virginia's Warbler, the first
we have found in this while in three years looking.
MacGillivray Warblers were still the commonest
Warblers, but we began to find a few Wilson