Field journal, v4159
Page 447
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Transcription
Upper Redrock Lake Montana 259. June 19, 1932 This morning I hiked up the road about 6 miles to a ridge overlooking the lake, to look for swans. The day was rainy and the lake so rippled that I could not see the swans. They are only visible in sunlight. After hiking around the west side of the lake I found 4 pairs of swans, one pair of which had 3 or 4 cygnets. They were too far away to discern plainly. With the 7 birds which I knew to be on Lower Redrock this makes a total of 15 adults and 7 cygnets seen yesterday and today. There were probably more. Other birds seen: Green-winged Teal - one pair had 11 young. Blue-winged Teal - several (Blue-winged) Cinnamon Teal - several Baldpate - many Scoup - many Mallard - many, with young Gadwall - 1 pair Redhead - a few Coot - many Curlew - about 50 Killdeet - perhaps 100 Wilson Plover - perhaps 25 Sandhill Crane - 6 back in the fields. Bufflehead - 2 Canada goose? I seen at a distance. The swan with cygnets kept chasing it.