Field notes, v574
Page 193
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Crowley 1942 Journal May 28 Cedar Grove, Forkings R., 4600 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. fast, M. Redm, Ida De May and I took the trail up to the falls on Sheep Creek (7:45. I continued on after M. Redm stopped at the Calliope's nest and Ida turned back at 11:18. It was a very cold, foggy or cloudy day and few birds braved the air with song. Junco hopped about the ground. Robin ran and hopped about at snowline. A White-headed Woodpecker flew from above the trail - where there were a number of dead stumps and fallen logs - to a Yellow Perri below the trail. Once it repeated this performance on my return trip, I theorized that it had a nest perhaps in one of the dead stumps above the trail. Once it did not return to the stump in which its nest was located, I could not ascertain which one stump it was in. A Fy Sparrow sang from a Manzanita-covered east facing slope. A hawk - light underparts, with a light red tail, black head and wing tips - floated over the hill at Summit Meadows, just above the place where the west fork of Sheep Creek crosses the trail. Junco hopped about the snow there. At Summit Meadow the snow had melted for the greater part