Field notes, v562
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15. Journal 13 June Hidden Forest Canyon, 7000 ft., Clark Co., Sheep Range, has junc & veigar cliff & just as exposed to N, again damp shaded. Also, in the "maple". 14 June 8 a.m. while still dark heard a loud sharp "jinks" -almost metallic. At 7:30 a.m. we headed down canyon in the truck. Not let me and halfway down the canyon - just where the pines peter out. Shot at & missed a black-chinned sparrow. Saw & shot at a pair of rufous-sided towhees, saw virginia warbler, many v-g swallows and bl-ths gray warblers. One white-breasted nuthatch in pinions. Great-titlias are most abundant bird. One flicker. Saw at a distance & heard scrule jay and pinjon jay. In the canyon bottom in a dense pinjon-juniper forest ran into a family of plain finch plain titmice - shot 3. Shot a working drake. Saw one aliph-sided flycatcher, & one pileolated warbler - nettle singing. Empidons at lower point of d got - where Dick parked the truck, which is 6,700 ft. Got a rush going - mainly titmice and nut clishades, joined by bl-ths gray warblers and great-titlias. Shot an empylon warbler under a shade in protected area near a cliff. Many chipmunks and one rock squirrel seen. Many fox tracks & few sheep tracks.