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Journal
R.E.Johnson
1966
Spar Lake 3300 Ft. Lincoln Co., Montana (cont.)
June 18 Trail to near the Idaho border. The trail follows
the canyon bottom and crosses Spar Creek once.
It passes beneath the cliffs of Spar Pk. There are
many openings in the timber along the creek, these
being principally alder (Alnus tenuifolia) and Devil's Club
thickets. A few birds were heard from these patches
(ex. MacGillivray's Warbler) but these were impossible
to see or get a clear shot at.
In deeper Timber on a steep SE slope a
large Boracajine was seen moving slowly along the
forest floor. A g (?) [or Immot.] Rufous Hummingbird
was collected from a low (15 ft.) limb of a 150 ft.
conifer in dense forest (no openings). A Red-breasted
Nuthatch was shot from the top of a 150 Ft snag.
A winter wren (?) was collected from a stump top
where it sang in an opening in the dense forest
near a roaring side stream to Spar Creek. All species
were collected at approx. 4700 ft. Grand Fir was present here.
A Red Squirrel was shot along the rd on the
west side of the lake and was later used by
Ward for Marten bait for a trap.
In the evening Moore, Ames, & I tried a rerun
of last nights procedure of flushing roadside birds
at 8-9 PM. This time only a couple Varied Thrushes
were seen & these were high on the upper road bank.
More Thrushes were heard however & from very near
the road.