Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 6
Page Number: 2572
by a vagrant Williamson. Quien sabe?
This afternoon from about 3:30 to 5, I took a walk
up over a ridge to the east of us, ascending
some 400 feet, I should judge. The ridges and
hills are crowned by huge boulders, the
flanks bouldery also, but with coarse gravelly
soil in stretches where grow thickets of
manzanita, buck-brush (ceanothus like cordulatus),
cascara, and 3 kinds of oaks, samples of which
I have saved. One of the oaks reaches a height
of 25 feet, but clumpy to base. I saw nothing
in the way of birds about them, as I had
hoped. I heard Wren-tits in manzanita in
one place, shot a Canyon Wren in boulders,
heard about 3 slender-billed Nuthatches in the
pines, several companies of Pigmy Nuthatches
also in the pines, and a fleeting company of
Bluebirds. Of mammals I saw no rabbit
sign at all, a very few deer tracks, while
Merriam Chipmunks were common. Cattle
tracks were everywhere -- up among the most
impossible rock piles, where they had
evidently gleaned some fleeting herbage
following the summer rains. I found
difficulty in climbing some of the places where
cattle had been! On the way back, coming
down a "draw", I came upon gofer and
mole workings almost simultaneously. I have
EN