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Hatfield - 1934
Lap Ranch, Colorado R., 1/2 mi. SE
Searchlight, 500+ft., Colorado
Clark Co., New.
we wounded another male, but could not find it in the thick brush.
On returning to camp, we saw a flock of Audubon warblers in a cotton-wood tree. Fitch shot one for identification.
Later Fitch and I went up onto the first bottom of the river. Here we saw no birds at all, nor any Arneu-spermophiles.
Tonight (8 P.M.) all of the party went over to a grove of cottonwoods, where Fitch and I had seen two horned-owls earlier in the day, and employed a rather unique technique to obtain them both. Fitch is adept at imitating a wounded and dying rabbit, and we used his persuasive powers to call both owls into gunshot distance. The two birds were paired, a male and female.
The male was called up first. He alighted in a cottonweed about 80 feet from the party and uttered a few very deep, gut-tural notes. Later the female was called up into a cottonwood about 200 yards from where the male was obtained. She