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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.