white with hail. The sun then came out, but it clouded again at 4:30. Among the most common birds at this camp is the Brewer blackbird. List is as follows: Cliff swallow, violet green swallow, Mt bluebird, buzzard, red tailed hawk, Brewer blackbird, catbird, goldfinch, red head (sic) woodpecker, cowbird, white throated swift, yellow warbler, flicker, robins, red wing blackbird, Townsend warbler, meadowlark, rock wren, dipper, Bullock oriole, killdeer, long crested jay, hummingbird, Lincoln song sparrow, piñon jay, towhee. Meadowlarks were also common on high plains near Wyoming line.
In evening Dodds + I collected Pisidia in the creek.
Box Elder Creek
Sunday June 9, 1907
Cold, windy morning, clearing by 9 a.m. but west wind continuing. Arose at 6 a.m. Dodds + I collected Pyramidula, Zonitoides, Vallonia, Pupilla, and Pisidium after breakfast, then shaved and started down stream at 10 a. m. Visited + photographed the upper falls in the granite rear where the creek reaches the sedimentaria + at the very edge of the granite
