Hunting journal, v4471
Page 151
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2. June 29, 1978 I put out the hummingbird feeders the evening we arrived and had the first customer next morning at 7:30 AM. By now, two days later, we have a constant noisy clientele of at least 15 or 20 female calliopes and an occasional female rufous. They squabble constantly over whose turn it is to drink but I guess they all get their share. Birds by our cabin and meadow are about as usual -- robin, song sparrow, flicker, junco, Audubon warbler, and calliope hummer are abundant. See an occasional yellow warbler, western tanager, chipping sparrow, Williamson sapsucker, white-br. nuthatch, Empidonax flycatcher, and western wood peewee. Normally we have a territorial pair of peewees but this year they are not at home in our meadow. Several chipmunks and golden-mantled ground squirrels live in our yard and we see chickarees daily in the big trees by the stream. June 30, 1978 I split some wood before going to Truckee for shopping, and as I rested momentarily I spotted a doe and a little wobbly-kneed fawn down by the creek. A low whistle gave Betty the signal so she was watching from the house. The doe worked along the streambank, little guy struggling through the tall grass behind her, to the pool where we have a nest box for water