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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral, 4800
Date: July 2
Page Number: 2513

With Mrs. G. around and thru [sic] willow bogs and thru [sic]
adjacent tracts of lodgepole pines on "Battle Creek Meadows."
Associates in one area of willow thickets, tall grass, blossoming
herbs, and luxurious verotrum, with here and there fallen
lodgepole pines, snags, and some standing trees of same
species, were: Song Sparrow, Lincoln Sparrow, Lazuli Bunting,
Traill Flycatcher, Sierra Junco, Golden Pileolated Warbler
and Yellow Warbler. A nearby abundance of Labrador
tea emphasized the Canadian Boreal complexion of this
aggregation - and yet there were the Buntings and Song Sparrows.
We spent a good deal of time in our efforts to collect
males of the latter - I don't shoot females of adult
birds now, for really all of them are obviously
concerned for young, either in the nest or at
large but still dependent. Heard a Grouse
"hooting" in the same tract of lodgepoles where we found
the young on the 20th (June). It appears that the
males, at least here, do stay in the vicinity
of their broods and that they continue to "hoot"
long after the actual mating season.

In a tract of good-sized, much branched lodgepoles
across the highway in the main big meadow, we
found a Calliope Hummer's nest. I heard the hum overhead
and caught sight of the female just in time to see her
go on to the nest, where she staid a minute moving
about. Later we watched her 50 yards or so off
plucking web from dead branches in the shade
10 feet up, which web she took to the nest. She