Field notes, v1309
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H.W. Grinnell -1925 Mineral, 7800 ft July 11 41. July 11 This afternoon we left camp at 6:30 p.m. and walked down past the chickadee stub. The young were very well-feathered but still in the nest. Across the meadow the tolmie warbler (see J.G.P.) was flushed from her nest which contained four eggs, as on July 8th. We found a robin's nest in an alder by a little stream thru the meadow. The alder stood alone and was rather sparsely foliaged so the nest, about 11 feet up, was very conspicuous. Stuart climbed to it and found it to contain two eggs. No parent was seen. On the edge of a meadow (very near the "powder house" in the hillside) we alarmed a pair of lazuli buntings. Both were so concerned that we searched the clumps of young willows near by and soon found the nest, about twenty inches above the ground in a thicka young willow clump. It held four full-fledged young. One left the nest before we could retreat! Just at dusk we saw two jack rabbits cross the main highway.