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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mineral
Date: June 23
Page Number: 2493

Mt. Chickadee (2); Western Tanager (5); Fox Sparrow (2);
Chipping Sparrow (18); Hermit Warbler (3); Tolmie Warbler (1);
Calaveras Warbler (1); Warbling Vireo (8); Calif. Purple Finch (4);
Wood Pewee (13); Lazuli Bunting (3) Pileated Warbler (1);
Spotted Sandpiper (2, along sparsely pebbled margins of
creek); Traill Flycatcher (1); Yellow Warbler (2); Robin (29+,
one seen carrying mud up to nest 50 feet above and
on lowermost branch of huge yellow pine); Cassin Vireo (1);
Audubon Warbler (7); Blue-fronted Jay (1); Turkey Vulture (2,
one circling above vicinity of store (?), and one above woods
at this end of the meadow) Brewer Blackbird (1, [female symbol] bathing
and preening, as if just off nest); Pine Siskin (1);
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2); Canada Nuthatch (1); Crossbill (1,
loud "chup" note heard from tips of yellow pine, given
persistently, until bird flew, and also then); Killdeer (2);
Meadowlark (2); Sierra Creeper (1); Western Bluebird (2);
Western Lark Sparrow (1, [male symbol] singing volubly from well up
in yellow pine at edge of meadow); Wright Flycatcher (2);
Olive-sided Flycatcher (1); Solitaire (1); Pygmy Nuthatch (2,
in different places, in upper parts of large yellow pines);
White-headed Woodpecker (2); Modoc Hairy Woodpecker (2);
Red-winged Blackbird (1+, heard from willows along stream, far
out in meadows); Cassin Purple Finch (2, mating pair).

Total, for 1 1/2 hrs., 8:15-9:45: 38 species, 133 individuals.

1 p.m. Still at west end of Battle Creek Meadows. Have
heard a Black-headed Grosbeak singing, and a Red-shafted
Flicker
. Just saw a Black-tailed Jack Rabbit (Lepus
c. californicus
) lope up the hill thru the snow bushes, from

Notes and Questions

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nbahet

unknown1 - species of Warbler that I am neither aware of nor can I figure out.

nbahet

unknown2 - Carrying?... "food"? "seed"? Can't tell.

nbahet

unknown3 - A particular variant of Hairy Woodpecker. Perhaps subsp.?

Nathani

Unk 1. How about "Tolmie or Macgillivray Warbler Oporornis tolmiei".Unk 3 -- see earlier note

justinramos

Carrying "mud. Birds often use mud to build their nests.

kcorriveau

unknown 3 changed to "Modoc"