Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mt. Lassen
Date: Aug. 1
Page Number: 2541
for 1-&-1/2 hours, 12:30 to 2, during that time she just just one
bird, an adult Junco, along, around a rock heap in
the old main crater. The snowbanks in the craters
had lots of moths, beetles, and other insects on them.
A Sparrow Hawk was seen percht [sic] on a rock, then flew,
at about 10,000 feet (500 ft. below top); grasshoppers
were seen at the same place.
On the way to here, I saw more Sparrow Hawks;
heard, but could not attrack [sic] (?), 2 or 3 Nutcrackers; saw
lots of Juncos; the same flock of Crossbills just
above Lake Helen, with some Cassin Purple Finches
apparently with them (shot one); a Solitaire; Chickadees (right
about me now). Just saw a Callospermophilus and
heard a small chipmunk (amoenus, I think).
Later:- arrived back at (unknown1) Springs, to camp for
the night, at about 6:30 p.m. Within a mile above, that is,
along the trail from Lake Helen, noted: one scattering
flock of fully 50 Pine Siskins, around little meadow and
small hemlocks; several Robins; some Tanagers; many
Cassin Purple Finches, young scattered thru white alders
along streamlets; Crossbills, in pairs or small companies
about summits of red firs and hemlocks; Ruby-crown
Kinglet (Two in hemlock).
August 2
Came back to our Mineral camp from (unknown1),
8 to 9:30 a.m. On the way down, noted Callospheromphilus
at intervals almost all the way (9 miles by
speedometer) to about half a mile above here. This
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