Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
27
R.E. Johnson
1967
Journal
June 17 Berkeley to Warner Mtns, California
Left Berkeley at about 10AM and drove via Vallejo,
Vacaville, Winters, & Redding, then via Calif. Hy. # 299 to
Alturas and Cedarville. At approx 5PM it rained in Canby.
I arrived in Alturas at 5:30PM. I decided to approach
the mtns from the east side because that side is steeper
& better drained and therefore approach roads would more
likely be dry. This notion proved correct and I was able
to drive to the top of the range via this [illegible] side.
(dirt)
Deep Creek road, turns west from the paved road at a
point approx 1 1/2 miles south of Cedarville. This road was
followed (but not the No. Fork Deep Creek branch of this road)
all the way to Granger Creek (14 miles of dirt road) divide.
Here the road split. It was not possible to drive all the
way to Tom Lee Meadows (east or left road fork), but the
road was clear past Porter Reservoir to the Summit
Trail (right fork of road). I set up camp at the
end of this road, packed my back for a 3 day stay
on Warren Peak, and collected & skinned one Mountain
Bluebird which was perched on top a 60 ft. dead
fir tree. It sang "tik-youk" at close intervals.
8:20PM
at 7:15 PM
An Oregon Junco was flushed by my car from a
roadside nest which faced east & was under a small, open
current bush. The nest contained 4 blue eggs with red-brown
speckles, which tended to form a band around each
egg at the widest part of the egg.
June 18 Porter Reservoir to Warren Pk via Summit Trail, Warner Mtns,