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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.