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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 22
Page Number: 2492

Mr. Hoffmann shot an adult male, with a bob-tailed
young one, of Golden-crowned Kinglet, in a dense group
of small fir here on the Forest Service camp ground
this afternoon. I saw a Red-shafted Flicker in flight
over the tree-tops - not a common species here - in
fact, far less seen than the Pileated Woodpecker.

June 23
10:00 a.m. - we have come 2 1/2 miles airline west
of camp along side of Battle Creek Meadows, following the
old road (see U.S.G.S quadrangle) to a little beyond the
old bridge across Battle Creek. Big forest trees, yellow
pines, fir, cedars, and sometimes sugar pines, extend down to
the edge of the "meadows"; the latter consist of open
pasture and also tracts of willows and lodgepole pines.
The present highway pretty much parallels the old road to
this point but thence goes down the canyon on the north
side, to cross it several hundred feet, altitude, lower.
At this end of the Meadows, the mountains pinch together,
and the creek bottom ^^soon becomes a narrow canyon. Here
are aspens, and a few alders. The Meadows are the
property of one W. L. Gerber (?), and are fenced; everywhere astride
the fences the vegetation is grazed down by the cattle
and sheep which go thru [sic] the country or are seen
at large over the forest lands; but inside the fences,
the vegetation looks fine - not overgrazed - some
of the enclosures not yet grazed at all, possibly
reserved for hay. Took a 1 1/2 hour census of
birds notes from the road near camp to here, as follows: