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Crowley
1920
June 3
Park
Camp Azalea, nr. Gen. Grant Headquarters, 6700 ft.
Fresno Co., Calif.
occupied by a Townsend Solitaire. Mrs. Brunnell located a Mt. Chickadee nest in a hole under a fallen log in the middle of our camp. As we started down the road toward Gen. Grant tree we saw a Hood Creeper, heard a Chipping Sparrow. He cut across the hillside through snowplant and june. As Mrs. Brunell pointed to the snowbush plant saying and said "This is exactly the sort of place 4 or Sparrows love to nest in." I opened a nest 2 ft from the ground in a snowplant thicket. She had been on the nest, flew away to the edge of the thicket, thence to a tree 200 yds away. She returned to a limb of a june 100 ft. from the nest and we identified her as a Fox Sparrow. There were 4 eggs in the nest - bluish gray eggs with brown streaks. He crossed the road and climbed up the roadside to see the shallow roots of an uprooted Yellow Pine. On a small yellow pine nearly, a g Robin sat on a nest 10 ft off the ground. She flew off as Marie climbed up the tree, and the bird stayed across the rd. There were 4 blue eggs in the nest. I saw a