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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 13
Page Number: 2587

it began to cloud up, and the wind was freezing cold;
but even so, I saw 5 Citellus beecheyi actively
out at the border of the stream at one time.
The Williamson Sapsucker was an adult male,
and was working on smallish pines where there
had been a recent ground-fire, breaking the
lower trunks and killing the lower branches.
The blackened bark was abundantly perforated
in many trees, and pitch was oozing from the horizontal
rows of punctures. This work must have been
going on for sometime -- weeks and, more likely,
months; and I could see there and at many
other places old sapsucker workings. The
evidence, I think, points towards the conclusion
that this sapsucker is resident here. Incidentally
I saw woodpecker nesting excavations in a dead stub
on a living Jeffry pine close to the bleeding
trees. Lamb collected a (male sign) Williamson
today, and this and the (female sign) I got at camp
should be compared carefully with more northern
specimens.
Oct 14
Snowed a while yesterday afternoon, then
cleared up completely in the evening, and I slept out
as usual; but at 4 this morning I woke up
with it snowing and moved into the tent with
Lamb. And it has snowed softly but abundantly
ever since (now9:30). It is sticky and branches

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 13
Page Number: 2587

it began to cloud up, and the wind was freezing cold;
but even so, I saw 5 Citellus beecheyi actively
out at the border of the stream at one time.
The Williamson Sapsucker was an adult male,
and was working on smallish pines where there
had been a recent ground-fire, breaking the
lower trunks and killing the lower branches.
The blackened bark was abundantly perforated
in many trees, and pitch was oozing from the horizontal
rows of punctures. This work must have been
going on for sometime -- weeks and, more likely,
months; and I could see there and at many
other places old sapsucker workings. The
evidence, I think, points towards the conclusion
that this sapsucker is resident here. Incidentally
I saw woodpecker nesting excavations in a dead stub
on a living Jeffry pine close to the bleeding
trees. Lamb collected a (male sign) Williamson
today, and this and the (female sign) I got at camp
should be compared carefully with more northern
specimens.
Oct 14
Snowed a while yesterday afternoon, then
cleared up completely in the evening, and I slept out
as usual; but at 4 this morning I woke up
with it snowing and moved into the tent with
Lamb. And it has snowed softly but abundantly
ever since now (9:30). It is sticky and branches