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Journal
Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.
Pileated Woodpeckers, several Chestnut-backed Chickadees. Worked on down the logging road to the turn in the creek. Saw young robins clamoring for food in a thimbleberry patch right on the edge of the steep stream banks, but I was not able to locate the nest. Returned to camp shinned the two jays and then went out in the afternoon to pick up a couple of Olive-sided Flycatchers. Both birds were immatures, apparently of a first and second brood, still being attended by parents. After shimming one of the immature Olive-sides I went with Dr. Pearson back to the thick forest area visited earlier in the morning and set out a mammal trap line. I set about 20 traps in quite moist situations, among Sword Ferns, under rotten logs and Shingle Cabbage leaves. Also some traps by holes in runways and on top of logs and roots. On the way to the area we saw a Spotted Sandpiper at the bend of the creek - while I saw a Kingfisher and many Varied Thrushes besides the Rough