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Cogswell
1950
'Journal'
29
July 19 7000 ft.
Sugar Bowl Lodge, to lower 'flat' (7400 ft.) in Sugar Bowl
near base of Mt. Lincoln, Placer Co., Calif. weather
0355 to 0520 Pacific Standard Time clear, cool.
Incomplete record of time of beginning
of song of various species of birds heard:
(Cogswell and 16 other 'listeners') - (Group B)
0355 - white-crowned Sparrow - began singing in
willow thickets some time during last 5 min.
0356 - Traill's Flycatcher }
W. Wood Pewee } both in song, forest edge
and willow thickets.
0357 - Robin - first song; full chorus within
2 or 3 min.
0401 - Lincoln's Sparrow - 1st heard in distant
willows, but may have been singing
earlier not distinguished (cf. )
0409 - Western Tanager - calls heard
Observers moved across open slope to neared
patch of forest.
0411 - Olive-sided Flycatcher }
Oregon Junco } all in song upon
Chipping Sparrow } arrival at new post.
Observers moved again
0422 - Audubon's Warbler - several already
singing in next patch of
trees (larger)
Green-tailed Towhee - singing from shrubs far up slope.
Observers moved on into denser forest
0428 - Hairy Woodpecker - calls heard (bird flew)
0430 - Sapsucker (species ?) - heard drumming.
End of record of beginning of singing.