Field notes, v1377
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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.