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Banks
1958
Journal
Apr. 4. The weather is not very good again, still cool
and very windy. Had a Neotoma in my trap
line, caught at the mouth of a large hole at
the top of the wall of the wash. In the cabin
had 2 Peromyscus. Shot a roadrunner right
away in my hunt, and later two Vireo bellii.
In the afternoon, to fill up the time got a
Vijayachus and a Hila Woodpecker. The
roadrunner had been seen across the road
from camp earlier, and when I shot it, it
had 2 grasshoppers in its bill. Later saw
another, probably its mate, right near the cabin.
The Vireos were both singing low in
willows. I walked down this road toward
the river, saw Berwick Wren and Abbott Towhees
in the brush along the road. The road has
just been scraped through the Arrow weed,
and the growth on either side is dense.
Heard a Yellowthroat and a Song Sparrow
in one place, and went into the brush but
thought I saw them both, I couldn't get either.
The night is extremely cold, but bright.
Apr. 5. A beautiful day at last - the day we have to
leave. Very bright and hot, just a few wisps of
clouds. Had a Dipodomys in my trapline.
All birds are active, and hawks are out for the
first time. Saw Amphispiza bilineata for the