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Cogswell
1950
Chordeiles minor
5
July 24 E. side Boca Des, 3600 ft, Nevada & Calif - In mid.
a.m. (bright sunshine) one was flying over the
sagebrush flat (see July 11) uttering the loud
call described above (July 7) for a ?. Most
individuals
birds when out in the daytime are not so
vocal.
July 26 8800 ft, 2 mi. S, 3/4 mi. E Mt. Rose, Carson Range, Washoe
Co. Nev. A ? was flushed (with diversion
any display similar to those noted above)
from stony ground under sparse whitebark
& lodgepole pines on N. facing slope just
over the Slide Mtn. - Mt. Rose saddle. Time
was not available to search for the NEST,
but another observer, (R. Hayes of Detroit, Mich.)
(Audubon camper) had seen
it previously & said it contained eggs.
July 30 Sugar Bowl Lodge [see p. 4] - 8+ over in evening
Aug. 3 6 + over meadow m front of lodge just after
7:15 p.m. P.S.T.
Aug. 3 - 7250 ft, 3/4 mi. N Donner Pass, Nevada & Calif
The eggs in the July 6-7 NEST hatched some
days ago (reported by Audubon campers), about
6:00 p.m. (P.S.T.) tonight (approx. sundown) some
18 persons accompanied me to the area, &
after a half-hour search we found the two
DOWNY YOUNG huddled at the base of the sloping
granite boulders which form the Sierra crest.
They were about 100 ft. from the nest site,
which had an egg shell lying beside it yet.
I banded them #1 34-249684 & -685; one of them
gave a low wheezy sound when handled, but
was quiet when released. The ? displayed at
our approach, but then was seen no more.