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Cogswell
1950
Turdus migratorius
2
June 30 Big Bend Camp Grd., 5800 ft., on S. Fork Yuba R., Placer Co., Calif.
Several pair seen; 10 with fledglings responding immedi-
ately to a whistled owl call + resulting in a
mob of several species about a group of 8 people.
same result in p.m. with 12 people present, all
of them seated quietly in white fir-Jeffrey pine forest.
July 2 Sugar Bowl Lodge, 7000 ft. - NEST on E. end contains young.
July 7 N. side Bear Valley, 4985 ft.; Nevada Co., Calif - many seen,
1 group of several fledglings on ground under dense
incense cedars at border of large grassy meadow.
July 8 Cisco Grove, 5650 ft. (see p.1) - a fresh family of fledglings.
July 17 Sugar Bowl Lodge [see above] - a new NEST, situated
in 7 ft. high crotch of 12 ft." lodgepole pine and very
much in open, now contains 4 small young.
July 20 Sugar Bowl Lodge to Sugar Bowl, .3 mi distant upslope
About 30 encountered on 2 hr. walk starting at
early dawn (7:50 a.m. POST); included were about 8 singing
birds, though singing is less persistent than 3 weeks
ago; also several fledglings. 1/3 of time spent in
dense forest.
July 23 Greel Peak - Joe's Sister saddle, 10,200 ft. Carson Range,
Eldorado Co., Calif. - 4 in zone of stunted whitebark
pines at timberline; there is no meadow nearby,
altho a few snowbrushes remain on nearby fell-fields.
late
July}
early
Aug.)
Sugar Bowl Lodge vic. [see above] - Fledglings now
found everywhere about buildings, forest ->
streocase
meadow edge, etc. Much diminution of song, altho,
Aug. 8 a new nest with young in it, in young pine by chalet
window.
Aug. 14 These young now fledged. No songs from any adults now.