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R.E. Johnson
1969
Journal
138
Jan.26 Salt Lake City area, Utah to Denver, Colorado
I came across a large flock (300) of rosy finches in eastern Colorado, 1.4 miles Moffat County west of Elk Springs, along US 40. These birds were feeding on roadside tumbleweed type vegetation protruding through the snow, much as the birds did in Nevada. Ten birds were collected at 4:30PM, much later than birds return to the roost at Bodie & Peavine Mtn. Again these birds were L.T. Tephrocotis & L.T. littoralis.
I continued driving on US 40 over the Rocky Mtns. to Denver.
Jan.27 Denver to Boulder, Colorado
picked up dry ice and visited the State Dept of Parks, Game & Fish in Denver before driving to Boulder where I met Kathy Bell, took a brief look at the U-of Colorado Rosy Finch collection, & otherwise visited with Carl & Jane Bock. They were moving from one house to another at this time but generously took me in for the night & Jane prepared the best meal I've had on the trip &, for that matter, since the start of this quarter.
Jan.28 Boulder Co., Colorado
Drove to Nederland (8200ft.) & looked for Rosy Finches with Kathy Bell. She has seen them around the area often in the past but none were around this morning. Nederland