Field notes, v1362
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Hooper, 1937 Bishop, Inyo Co., Calif. Jan. 6, Position of Previous to the snow only those seeds which fell to the ground from the upper flowers were available to the mice. Now the "walkable substrate" was on a level with the dried uppermost dried flowers. I noted tracks which I believed to be made by a fox but am not certain. The sweet odor of a skunk was detected in the slight breeze at about 4 P.M. Birds noted included: Savannah Sparrows (abundant, in flocks, along streams in the willows and in clumps of composites in the open fields); Green- elm boaked goldfinch (1 seen south of Bishop feeding on a composite along the highway); Maggie (flock of 4 or 5 seen each time I "went afield" in open fields or trees); bird Marsh Hawk (one, seen at three different places - each time flying low - +6 ft. over open fields); Sparrow hawk (1 observed perched atop a poplar tree near town); Bush-tits (flock of +8 feeding in pear and apple trees); Red-shafted flicker (at least three seen or heard in trees - not seen feeding); (house)? a Wren (in willow thickets along a stream); Robin (2 seen in trees about town); Brewer Blackbird (flocks of +5 seen - one bird sought