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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Lassen Section (Mineral)
Date: June 13-14, 1925
Page Number: 2462

forenoon nest-hunting. Found several, to be
reported upon later, in suitable locations for Dixon
to photograph them. Fished in the afternoon, securing
7 Eastern Brook and 1 Rainbow Trout. Deer tracks
abundant thru the willow bogs, forming trails; many
fresh tracks along the streams, as also up on the dry
slopes among the Ceanothus cordulatus mats, where
one was jumped by Mrs. G at 10 a.m. Saw a
Spotted Sandpiper on a scanty patch of gravel at the
edge of one of the numerous meadow channels of
Battle Creek - grassy meadows on willow jungles everywhere
else. A Tree Swallow in full song flew overhead -
the only swallow I have seen here.
A curious association of birds was evidently
established for birding in the willow bog, as follows:
Russet-backed Thrush, Lincoln Sparrow, Song Sparrow
(subsp.?), Traill Flycatcher, Yellow Warbler (subsp.),
Golden-Pileolated Warbler, Western Warbling Vireo and
Lazuli Bunting. Western Robins were, of course,
in the open meadows, and plenty of Sierra
Juncos along the edges of both the meadows and
the willow bogs, where these are bordered by
lodgepole pines.
June 14
Mrs. G. and I out hunting birds' nests all the
forenoon, finding only two, both unfinished. This
seems exactly the right season for finding
most small birds' nests; few are sitting yet.