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- [Typewritten copy of journal of Allan C. Brooks]
Deer very plentiful and absurdly tame, have
walked in the open right up to them, twice with
a very fine buck, the last time within 10 yards
on the open sandhills. Horns nearly full
length but showing only one very wide fork and
a crown point on each horn.
12. Queen Charlotte woodpeckers and Creepers
with young full grown.
Sanderlings (2 adults) on beach with Western
Sandpipers all adult females?
14. On the muskeg country back of White's River,
a rolling upland of musket and ponds. Saw good
many blue grouse, 2 males hooting, and plenty
of small birds principally Forbush's sparrows,
juncos and hermit thrushes. Western Flycatcher
nesting in the clumps of dwarf pines and cedars
out on the open muskeg.
Only water birds seen, a colony (small) of
Glaucous-winged gulls resting on a high ridge.
Saw signs of geese and cranes. Deer numerous
and tame. Along the shore line going and coming
were crowds of small waders, western sandpipers,
sanderlings, Least sandpipers and semipalmated
plovers, all juveniles except some of the last.
16. Up on the White's creek muskeg again, a
pair of Sandhill cranes there seen to have young
18. First hawk, a young Sharp-shin (shot)
20. Birds are silent and retiring - all in moult-
no song for the last two weeks. Sandpipers are
all adults still, many sanderlings, western and
Least Sandpipers.
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