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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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1927
Mrs. Grinnell established in a cabin nearby, with three of their children. We pooled our lunches and ate together in their cabin - other meals at the dining room. In afternoon I went for a walk with Dr. and Mrs. G., exploring their six acres on which they are making a census of nesting birds, then through the meadow and up among the aspens. Snow most of the time. Birds were very quiet but found Robins, W. Bluebirds, Skerrtt Hermit Thrush, Hermit, Tolnice, Audubon, Paleolated and Yellow Warblers, Fisherville Song Sparrows, Lincoln Sparrow (Song thrush richer lower pitched than Song Sparrow), Junco (2 nests, one with 3 eggs, other w. four), Fox Sparrow, White-headed Woodpecker (brooding in nest in stump of tree which has been sawed off 2 ft. above ground), Moadse Hairy Woodpecker (nest in aspen), Pygmy Milkatch, Ruby-Crowned Knight, Mt. Chickadee, Wright Flycatcher, Wood Pewee Meadow Lark, Red-winged Blackbird (N.W.), Spotted Sandpipers (3
22 species.
Very cold night. Had to drain radiator of car.
May 28. Mineral. Partly clear early, snow later in morning - Took a walk with the Grinnells up the Brookoff trail from 8:15-11 a.m. The first hour in the valley and among yellow pines, silver firs, sugar pines and a few tamaracks.
The second hour, a few black oaks just coming into leaf, red firs and on the ridge a large patch of manzanita. The last 3/4 hr mountain pines, small meadows just coming out of snow, then drifts 3 ft. high and snow falling heavily - Census follows.