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Culbreath
1941
Dec 30.
3 mi. No. Trinidad, 300 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif.
Headed back toward camp as I stayed my first
group of quail in this area. They were extremely
wild and one did not have time to shoot.
About 11 AM it began to rain very hard and
I returned to camp. About 300 yds off the
shore line at camp, is located a good sized
colony of sea lions. This loud barks can
be heard very distinctly even in the timber
area behind camp at any time of the day
or night.
Dec. 31.
The weather was unsettled in the morning
but clouded off and dropped to freezing temperature
during the night. Walking down the steep slopes
out of camp one can get on a rocky
sands less beach 300 feet below her. The slopes
are covered with tangles of high thick brush
with the exception of along the Alder thickets,
shade areas and one place 1/2 mile No of here
when the sheep have grazed the area
opened up the brush and given the shot
growns a chance for establishment. This
pastures land is spotted with thickets of
Brushers and Ninebark and the Lupines
form a dominant part of the cover types.
The coast line here appears to be very
lacking in bird life with only two song
sparrows observed along some 1/4 mile of
the rocky beach. The pastures land had