| S2 Page 64Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Turner Mt., 6300 ft.
Date: July 3
Page Number: 2517
consist of: Ceanothus velutinus, C. cordulatus, chinquapin,
service-berry, red cherry, Sierra maple, Arctostaphylos nevadensis,
A. patula, red alder, and various herbs.
Written later, from pencil notes. - Birds noted right
around the top, within 100 yards of the lookout house,
were: Fox Sparrow (one sang repeatedly from the dead
tip of a fir, lightning-blasted); Green-tailed Towhee
(one sang from the lower stubby limbs of the same fir,
interests centering in the brush close to the house);
Cassin Purple Finch (at least three in full song up
near tops of live small red firs, one came to cleared
ground within 20 feet of house); Blue-fronted Jay (heard
down in the hemlocks and firs below rim of cirque);
Junco (a dozen or more, flying, singing or foraging
along the rim and especially around the melting
snow banks); Violet-green Swallow (fully a dozen in
flight under the cloudy sky within the cirque, often
swooping low over the snowbanks, much twittering and,
I think, young among them.
Mammals around the lookout were: Callospermophilus
(two, very tame, Mr. Stark complaining that they got
inside his room whenever they could, only to
tear about distractedly as soon a they found
themselves enclosed), Chipmunks, Eut. amoenus (3
or 4 among the rocks and in the chaparral about
the house); deer (tracks and tails abundant
everywhere, one 4-point buck seen below the
cirque on the moraines going thru [sic] the heavy | S2 Page 64Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Turner Mt., 6300 ft.
Date: July 3
Page Number: 2517
consist of: Ceanothus velutinus, C. cordulatus, chinquapin,
service-berry, red cherry, Sierra maple, Arctostaphylos nevadensis,
A. patula, red alder, and various herbs.
Written later, from pencil notes. - Birds noted right
around the top, within 100 yards of the lookout house,
were: Fox Sparrow (one sang repeatedly from the dead
tip of a fir, lightning-blasted); Green-tailed Towhee
(one sang from the lower stubby limbs of the same fir,
interests centering in the brush close to the house);
Cassin Purple Finch (at least three in full song up
near tops of live small red firs, one came to cleared
ground within 20 feet of house); Blue-fronted Jay (heard
down in the hemlocks and firs below rim of cirque);
Junco (a dozen or more, flying, singing or foraging
along the rim and especially around the melting
snow banks); Violet-green Swallow (fully a dozen in
flight under the cloudy sky within the cirque, often
swooping low over the snowbanks, much twittering and,
I think, young among them.
Mammals around the lookout were: Callospermophilus
(two, very tame, Mr. Stark complaining that they got
inside his room whenever they could, only to
tear about distractedly as soon a they found
themselves enclosed), Chipmunks, Eut. amoenus (3
or 4 among the rocks and in the chaparral about
the house); deer (tracks and tails abundant
everywhere, one 4-point buck seen below the
cirque on the moraines going thru [sic] the heavy |
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