Field notes: Catalogue, journal, and species accounts, v507
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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.