. The oist . mber, hashe not invaded your mountain campand robbed you of your piece of soapor your tooth brush hanging on theside of a pine tree? During the breed-ing season this bird is silent, and soshy and wary, that to gain any knowl-edge of its home life is almost impos-sible unless one lives in the highmountains the year around. HereVvhere pine nuts are plentiful we findthe Pinon Jay, the Mountain Chicka-dee, and the Lead-colored Bush-Tit. The spring rains have come, butthe first week in April is clear, so wetake the train to Brigham City, andfrom there go out to the sloughs. Itis late w
. The oist . mber, hashe not invaded your mountain campand robbed you of your piece of soapor your tooth brush hanging on theside of a pine tree? During the breed-ing season this bird is silent, and soshy and wary, that to gain any knowl-edge of its home life is almost impos-sible unless one lives in the highmountains the year around. HereVvhere pine nuts are plentiful we findthe Pinon Jay, the Mountain Chicka-dee, and the Lead-colored Bush-Tit. The spring rains have come, butthe first week in April is clear, so wetake the train to Brigham City, andfrom there go out to the sloughs. Itis late when we make our camp, butwe are astir with the first rays of themornings sun. The air is filled witha medley of honks and squawks andthe dull whirr of wings as the birdsare preparing for their flight inland tobreakfast in the neighboring fields andsloughs. There are hundreds andthousands of birds. As we sit aboutour camp fire at breakfast, we watchthem pass by—single birds, pair after •II no 147. Young CormorantsSalt Lake, Utah pair, small flocks, and long lines, andwedges. There is the Canada Goose,the Great Blue Heron, the Black-Crowned Night Heron, the Mallard,the Pintail and the Canvasback, theShoveller, the Baldpate, the Green-wing Teal, and the Cinnamon Teal. The humid mist of the early morn-ing is rising, so we take a duck boatand course along the runways, wind-ing in and out of the tules, gliding sosilently that we take a setting CanadaGoose unawares; and surprise a col-ony of Black-crowned Night a moment or two the sun is dark-ened by several large flocks of White-faced Glossy Ibis passing over-head, coming in from the open lake;a frantic duck dashes madly throughthe air closely pursued by a hungryDuck Hawk; the air is filled with thewarning cries from a colony of Avo-cets, as they circle closely above ourheads; and as we land upon a mud flat, the little Black-necked Stilts risefrom their nests, making their way tothe waters edge, where they fla
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