Field notes, v567
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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