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Crowley, 1942
Journal
May 24 Cedar Grove S Fork Kings R., 4600 ft, Fresno Co. Calif.
May 24, 1942
mountain to set traps for ground squirrels.
Francis, Ida and Marie skinned the animals caught the preceding night while I wrote notes.
At 11:05 Ida and I walked to the bridge
to ascertain the direction in which the
roads went, in order to make a map. After
lunch, Marie and I set out on a lizard hunt,
taking the road toward Sentinel Camp,
on the south side of Kings River. At 1:10
we started our bird observation with Coast
Steller Jays. A Western Tanager flew
into the top of a Sugar Pine uttering a
peculiarly bell-like call. Three Gray
Squirrels raced into a Libocedrus decurrens
and one ran up into a tree across the
road. A Chickaree drilled from a spot
on the southern wall of the canyon. She
started to hunt Sceloporus, when we heard
a Chipping Sparrow off to the north. Marie left
to hunt the Sparrow while I observed a Fly-
catcher in a Dead Pine. This Flycatcher flew
from an oak to a Sugar Pine, perched on a dead
limb 50 - 60 ft. from ground. He bird had a
grey back, white wing bars and underparts,
lacked the eyering. Probably a Wood Pewee.
I left the campgrounds and went westward.