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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