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Cogswell
1949
Journal
96
3 mi. N Willow Creek, 700 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.
Aug. 28 (cont) were noted: Great Blue Heron - 1; American Merganser - 14? (see species acct); Spotted Sandpiper - 2;
Belted Kingfisher, 1; Black Phoebe, 1; Violet-green
Swallow - 50+ (see species acct.)
at about 3:00 p.m. I went with Murray to Horse
Lints Creek canyon, at the end of the road N. of our
camp in Loon Creek. Horse Lints is a much larger
stream, draining 10x or more as much area as Loon
Creek. The vegetation near it is similar, but there
are old river terraces near the canyon bottom here
o there. There are mostly occupied by maple-
aldar forest or partly by Douglas Fir - Tan Oak
mixture. A short walk up the Horse Lints
trail, which begins to go up the N. canyon wall,
brought me to an area where Vaccinium oxocatum
formed a thick understory in young Douglas fir forest.
I collected 2 Wren-tits here (see species acct.) and
heard 1 Spotted Towhee; several Steller's Jays, 1 Var-
bling Viole, several Chestnut-backed Chickadees, 1 Creeper,
and 1 Hermit Thrush. About 10 Vaux Swifts were
seen flying nearby. One Doe Black-tailed Deer
was seen in dense forest understory just S. of
Sinseng Creek (a tributary of Horse Lints).
Aug. 29 at 8:30 a.m. Syllion, I arrived at the wood-
land area, W. of the Trinity River near where I
was yesterday p.m. The woodland and brush
merely borders an old walnut orchard and
2 abandoned fields. Just to the S of these is