Field notes, v562
Page 177
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Christman, J. & Co. 1962 Journal 21 June Strawberry Creek, 8,000 ft. Snake Range White Pine Co., Nevada. Apparently foraging. One made several spotting passes away from trees. Ward & Ron returned to camp briefly, just as a sharp-shinned hawk flew low thru the trees near us. Didn't get a shot off. At 11: a.m. went back down stream & shot the only other Empidonax I saw earlier. It was 25 ft. up in a thick space of aspens on a dead branch under the leafy canopy. Its call was a loud, sharp "Cheer-eeep". Alt is #896. Heard a new note - sounding like a brush-tit but an inflected 3 note call [illegible] from a tangle of dead brush & young leafy aspen over a dirty sluggish spring. Finally saw a movement & shot the first Saline warbler! Yesterday was cloudy & threatened to rain after 2 - at 11:30 a.m. clouds forming over us. At 4:30 p.m. I walked out onto the sage area N. of camp & watched a Marsh Hawk circle low awes of short grass-rush meadow on the flat NE of camp - it circled low but gained altitude over the Artemisia & flew off thru the gap N. & got a good look at it thru the binoculars - it was in the gray phase. [1/2 mi. NE of camp on a granite knoll with large carocarpus is a stake with the following: T14N R68E 522 | 523 527 | 526]