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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 9
Page Number: 2579

Red-breasted Sapsucker again, but failed to sight
him; he evidently visits a series of punctured
trees in a sort of regular or irregular circuit.
Tonight I saw a Prairie Falcon in flight; my
attention was attracted to it by hearing the startled
shreek (sic) of a ground squirrel These squirrels get
into my steel traps every day; they must
smell the meat bait, or else cover a great
deal of ground in promiscuous foraging each
day. Merriam Chipmunks are as numerous
as chipmunks any place I have ever been; they,
too, cover all sorts of ground pretty thoroly.
Almost every sort of bird and mammal now a days,
visits the cascara bushes, which are fruiting
plentifully. There are no acorns, and
few or no fruits of the manzanita and buckthorn.
The pine cone crop is fair. Take away the
pines and the cascaras, and the birds and
mammals would be faring poorly, indeed;
doubtless a number of the species would promptly
become extinct. Another year the oaks might
be the dependence. I have seen much
more mole sign, even far up in the hills,
beyond any gopher workings, where the coarse
granite gravel between the boulders looks
most sterile. In such places the mole "ridges"
are sinuous, caved-in grooves-- the animals
leaving no hole, just moving along close to the surface, and

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