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July 15, 1937, 8 mile cabin
Mt. [Mount] Revelstoke.
Spent the morning up the Big Bend highway
28 to 30 miles. The road passes for 15 miles
through heavy forests of western hemlock, cedar
and western white pine, with a great deal of
devils club in the undergrowth.
Further on there is a huge burn several years
old where bird life is more abundant.
I saw 3 sparrowhawks, 2 Vaux Swift, 3 Evening
Grosbeaks, 2 Red-eyed vireos, 6 Ruffed Grouse,
1 Catbird, 2 Cedar Waxwings, 1 Red-tailed Hawk,
2 Lewis Woodpeckers, 4 Hybrid Flickers, 4 Clarks
Crow, 2 eastern kingbirds, 20 +/- white-winged
crossbills, 2 Redstarts.
Later in the day we established ourselves in
the warden's cabin at mile 8. In the evening
saw 2 bats and 4 rabbits on the road between
miles 8 & 9.
6 Mile Mt. [Mount] Revelstoke. July 16, 1937.
Went in to Eva Lake in search of more
Leucosticte and Ptarmigan. Left the cabin at
7:30 a.m., arrived at Eva Lake at 10 a.m. I
then proceeded up Mt. [Mount] Harry and around the
basin onto the slides on the west slope of the
mountain beyond. Heard no Leucosticte or
Ptarmigan. Saw goat tracks in two places.
Rock rabbits abundant.
After lunch at the lake again went up a
shoulder of Mt. [Mount] Harry and on the summit shot
3 Callospermophilus, 1 Citellus and saw a
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