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Babs
1959
Journal
37.
July 2 Harts Pass, 6200 ft., Okanagan Co., Wash.
Saw a Clark's Nutcracker near the top of Slate Peak also Lupit.
Also saw a Hoary Marmot in a large snowdrift - it called my attention to it by whistling.
The evening was quite cold and windy.
Don Jones, the guard at this station,
arrived at noon. Very cold + windy at night
so I slept inside the guard cabin.
July 3 Woke up late - the cloud cover was only a few hundred feet above the cabin. It snowed off on all morning, but about 10 a.m., it cleared up some, and I started out. Before that it was too bad. Temp. was 36°F. at 8am.
A Dusky Breeze flushed from a tree as I left the road to get to the same meadow that I worked yesterday. It was very windy + rather cold all morning, but I collected 3 birds, got back to camp at 1 p.m. The afternoon was fairly clear, but still very windy, and I could not get any birds. Did not even see a bear many. Drove up to Slate Peak with Don Jones late in the afternoon, saw a couple of Hoary Marmots (2), one the same as yesterday.
Very cold but clear at night. In camp just before dark saw a Robin chasing a Steller Jay, the first of the latter species observed here.