Field notes, v1377
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R.E. Johnson 1966 Journal 31 Spar Lake to Yaak River, Lincoln Co., Montana (cont.) June 25 3 brown spotted eggs. A peculiar sequence of events was noted. A Robin flew to where on of the adult sandpipers was standing beside the lake and the sandpiper "begged" (chirping, wing fluttering, crouching) & the robin fed it. Later a robin was seen to approach the sandpiper nest with food in its beak. However I apparently scared it off. The adult sandpiper was not on the nest at the time. A search of the Spar Lakeshore was made for amphibians. Four eggs individually attached to branches located in shallow water (6 inches) were found [egg 1/3 size] and another egg mass was [actual size] found, also in shallow water. Both sets of eggs were within a foot of shore. Four Common Goldeneye (♀'s & or Imm.) were seen far from shore in Spar Lake. We arrived in Libby, Montana just before 12 noon, where we made several stops and then drove on to the Yaak River. We explored the road net along the Yaak River from Yaak east to Caribou Campground and Creek and finally returned to Yaak and west to Pete Creek. We followed a road up Pete Creek (north) to the West Fork of the Yaak and then followed the latter west toward its headquarters to a point at about 5000ft near a bridge over the river. A young male moose was standing beside our prospective campsite when we