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Bentle
1934
Great Salt Lake - Egg Island, Utah
June 25
another in unison. A flock would fly toward us, suddenly turn straight up and would then appear as a glittering mass as the silver breasts shone in the sun. Often they alighted in the water and floated relatively far apart. Could they have been feeding on brine shrimp?
We landed half way up the west side of the island for lunch and I walked up the beach for a short distance noting dozens of Uta stansburiana stansburiana lizards on the high gravel beach. In one area there was evidently fresh water seepage along the shore and a slight marsh was present with sedges, for salt and other grasses and countless insects swarmed around. I imagine it would be an interesting ecological problem to study such an association.
Shortly after we resumed our trip this time using the motor because of the deadened lake. We noticed a line of pelicans