Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Colnett, Sat. 31 degrees
Date: October 29, 1925
Page Number: 2610
6647 Dipodomys ? (male sign) 60.3g. 250 x 141 x 42 x 9. On silt-soil bottom.
6648 Thomomys (female sign) 96g. 207 x 70 x 26 x 4. “ “ “
6649 Bewick Wren (female sign) ad. 9.9g. Shot from black-sage bush.
6650 Brown Towhee (male sign) ad. 44.5g “ “ lycium bush.
6651 “ “ (female sign) ad. 41.6g. Shot in flight among agaves.
6652 Horned Owl (female sign) bill, skull and a mass of feathers of Mudhen
in stomach; flushed from willows out in valley where, at Unknown 1 time, the San
Rafael River flows; now only sand there; but tidal seepage lagoons below, toward beach
Drizzled during the night and this morning, but cleaned up about 10 o’clock and now
(2 p.m.) warm and sunshiny. Out early and then 7:30 to 9:30. Saw numerous Audubon
Warblers around Unknown 2 (R. laurina). Noted one Sparrow Hawk up on hillside
among agave stems. These (old stalks) afford roosting places for many birds: Shrikes,Ravens, Linnets, and today I saw an adult Red-Tailed Hawk perched on one. The
new flower stalks are just shooting up, but not out yet. Saw a very white Marsh Hawk
(probably same one) several times skimming above the bush tops on the bottomland.
The coastal part of our “section” presents seeming contradictions: the air is humid a large
part of the time, yet the vegetation is xerophilous in the extreme. The actual rainfall must
be little, and there must be streaks of excessively dry weather. Here are eight species of
cactus, the agave, 3 species of lycium,