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Journal
66
Willow Creek (= Juckayon Week) 1/2 miles W. of Exit 93 Interstate Highway 40, Willow Creek Ranch Tupper Co., Arizona. Elevation 4680 ft.
August 14
(Cont)
The camp is about 1 mile SW of ranch headquarters on a low bench beneath a hill where the floodplain is the widest in the area upstream from E-bound I-40. Partly of shade here. During my reconnaissance, goldfinches seemed fairly numerous: 15 or 20 birds encountered. Certainly worth a stay.
After looking around, I returned to camp, set up my net not close by and was looking for another net site when it started to rain at 10:45. I returned to get my judas bird out of the perches, pulled a half dozen birds out of the net (no psalteria) and it started to rain in earnest at 11:00, and this soaking shower lasted fully an hour. Then I set up my second net down toward I-40, and ran my nets until 16:00, catching one lesser goldfinch at the lower net. At 16:00 service rain resumed and lasted until 19:00. Temperatures on this continuously overcast day were 70°-85°F and while clouds moved toward the NE, surface winds were light and variable, as often as experienced in the bottom of the cany.
I believe that I called this place Willow Ranch last year, and this seems based on my misunderstanding the ranch hands I spoke to in 1989. Mr. Anderson calls his place Willow Creek Ranch. And the stream may be called Juckayon Week on the USGS topo map of the area, but it is called Willow Creek by all here.
Two conspicuous avifaunal members from 1989 were missed today: zone-tailed hawk and vermilion flycatcher.