Field notes, v1309
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H.W. Grinnell -1925 Mineral, 4800 ft. July 15 years ago with rainbow trout, which according to his experience do not thrive in land-locked water. He hopes to plant five small lakes near Int Turner with brook-trout this fall, but says it will be about seven years before there is good fishing in the planted lakes. Mr Turner says that the best fishing near Mineral is at Manzanita Lake. At five o'clock we left camp, with a picnic supper and went down over the same route taken by us at six-thirty on July 11. The young chickadees in the stub by the meadow edge were apparently all dead, but both parents were near at hand and resented our visit. One parent entered the hole with food as we watched from a distance of a hundred feet. At the tolmie's nest no bird was about and the nest itself was tipped to one side. Half an egg shell was in plain view and one whole egg was hidden beneath debris,