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Coggswell
1950
Wilsonia pusilla
3
Aug.1-2 near Sugar Bowl Lodge, 7000 ft. [see p.2] - only songs heard now are hesitating, published in volume;
aug.8,
and a few of those -> Last heard these half-songs.
aug.11]
Aug.5 Lisco Grove, 5650 ft.. [see p.2] - I heard calling in under-
Jul.16 growth of riparian woodland.
Aug.14 near Sugar Bowl Lodge, 7000 ft. [see p.2] - 3 seen or heard
on 1 3/4 hr. slow walk thru conifer forest bordering
willow patches of wet meadows. 2 were in willows.
Aug.17 Hampshire Rocks, 5900 ft., on S. Fork Yuba R., Placer Co.,
Calif. - 3 seen in willow-dogwood-aspen
riparian thickets & admixed pines & cottonwoods.
Aug.18 near Sugar Bowl Lodge, 7000 ft. [see p.2] - about 10
encountered in 1/8 mi. walk thru conifer forest
(red fir + lodgepole + silver pines); this is largest
no. of this species recorded well away from
the willow, aspen & forest border habitat
it breeds in. Hence, dispersal and/or migration
movement is indicated - about 2 wks.
later than influx of several other warblers.
Aug.24- 7100 ft., 3/4 mi. W Donner Pass, Placer Co., Calif. - 2
in mixed hard & soft chaparral + patches of conifers.
(p.m) - Ice Lakes, 6900 ft., 3 mi. W, 1 mi. S Donner Pass, Placer Co.
Calif. - 3 seen in lodgepole pine - red fir forest
(cf. numbers of Vermivora celata, Dendroica auduboni)
Aug.25 7100 ft., 1/2-2 1/2 mi. S Donner Pass, Placer Co., Calif.
about 5 seen along edges of conifer forest &
interspersed with shrub patches (aspen, cherry, ny oak
huckleberry)
Aug.26 near Sugar Bowl Lodge [see above] - 1 seen.