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Crowley/1942
Journal
May 22 Cedar Grove S. Fork Kings R., 4600 ft., Fresno Co., Calif.
May 22, 1942
next below the falls on Sheep Creek. He climbed straight up the south wall of the canyon past huge boulders and scrubby undergrowth where we saw a Sceloporus.
He passed by the "Bench" above our camp, went Southeastward across a small branch of Sheep Creek to the old road.
He proceeded up the old road, past the trail to the American Dippers' home, to the trail up to the Calliope's nest.
He stopped at rock piles for Sceloporus.
I tried to see the lizard stick while Marie shot at them with a sling shot.
He pounced briefly at the Calliope's nest at 2:05 then retraced our steps down the trail. He failed to get any Sceloporus. Back at camp (we returned on the trail used May 21) we found that Francis Ogilvie had found a rattlesnake on top of a log east of camp. The ranger killed the snake and the girls - Francis, Jean and Lila - returned with it and ten Sceloporus. Marie and I had only a list of birds we had seen: I saw a Creeper working on a yellow pine on the old road, heard