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Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 6
Page Number: 2571

6422 Cabanis Woodpecker (male sign) 62.0g. Shot from bole of pine
"Smokiness" of breast due to contact with newly burned tree trunk.
6423 Cabanis Woodpecker (male sign) ad. 60.7g. Shot from end of pine branch
where working on ripening cones just as the Pinyon Jays do.
Up in the Microtus gorge, I saw a Song Sparrow
this morning! Also saw a Sharp-shinned
Hawk in swift pursuit of a Tanager; both
were silent, the hawk gaining, but they
got out of sight beyond trees before I could
see the denouement. Saw a Sharp-shinned
Hawk again this evening; a Tanager, too, but in
no association of the two! Saw two
Rufus Hummers during the day, despite the
hard freeze of last night; also one Anna
Hummer; all about Salvia carnosa blossoms.
By the way, I have put into the plant press
samples of this and other shrubs of importance
in vertebrate connections, for correcting naming.
I have found 4 "sapsuckered" pines far
separated from one another. The one by camp
has never been visited by any other since
I shot the Williamson Sapsucker there. At
one of the other trees, I today saw a
Red-breasted Sapsucker, in plain view, but
it proved wild. This raises the question
as to whether it might not have been a
bird of the latter species that made the
first workings, these being visited casually.