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Cogswell
1950
Vermivora celata
3
Aug. 14, near Sugar Bowl Lodge [see p. 1] - about 10 encountered Aug. 18 on a 2 hr. slow walk thru conifer forest & along edge of willow dotted meadow.
Aug. 15 C. and L. Van Norden - about 10 in willows of Milet Creek mouth (of July 14).
apparently migration is still going on in force, despite passing of the big wave of Aug. 3.
Aug. 21 Drosser Cr., 5650 ft., 1 1/3 mi. E, 3 1/2 mi. N Truckee, Nevada Co., Calif. - 2 seen in much browsed, scattered willow clumps along the creek banks in open, grassy valley. Surrounding hills, a few hundred feet away, are sagebrush or sagebrush + open Jeffrey pine forest.
Aug. 24 - 7100+ ft., 3/4 mi. W Donner Pass [see July 5] - 2+ in thickets of bitter cherry, etc., where commoner earlier.
Ice Lakes Camp Ground, 6900 ft., 3 mi. W, 1 mi. S Donner Pass Placer Co., Calif. - about 15 seen during 1 1/4 hrs spent in lodgepole pine - red fir forest on bouldery, flattish slopes NE of Bulldog L.
Most of them were foraging in foliage + on smaller branches of the conifers; and at a small water-filled hole (40+ feet x 60+ ft.) in middle of the forest there was a regular trooping of small birds down to the waters edge for drinking + bathing. 5 or 6 of this sp. were involved, all of them moving in a circuitous route thru forest to go to the water via a dead tree top which extended from forest into the water, slooly avoiding the 30+ ft. wide opening elsewhere.