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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: Mt. Lassen
Date: Aug. 1
Page Number: 2540

seen in the Timberline belt are Sparrow Hawks
(about 4, in sight a good deal of the time, hovering
against the stiff south wind); Nutcracker (about 6,
most of the time very quiet). All these birds appear
to be interested in the grasshoppers, of which there are
quite a few on gravelly places between boulders.

2 p.m. - Rest of family not down yet. Dick and I
in uppermost flattened mats of white-back pine [sic] Wind
blowing violently from south shows what these uppermost
trees have to stand. One, breast high, that I am
leaning against is flattened off square with the
top of a protecting slab of rock. Only living
things noted since last writing (save grasshoppers):
Cony (one said "chink" back under some loose
rocks of the Talus); Calliope Hummer (one female or young
one shot past and hesitated a moment before a
patch of blue lupine); Junco (one full grown juvenal (?) [sic]
came into the brush-like pines close at hand and
eyed us curiously.) I have kept ear and
eye alert for (unknown1), but no sign. There
are many snowbanks, melting edges, etc., ideal.
looking places - but no birds about them - save
young Juncos.

5 p.m. - At smaller lake near Lake Helen. The
rest of the family got back to the timberline trees
from the summit at 2:30, and we have been
loitering along - to make a snow man and to
go in wading! Mrs. G. was on the summit