. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 144 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. was coming and my little family had apparently gone to shelter— possibly under a dense mat of evergreen or into a safe cavern under a ledge, for they are said to- roost along the edges of coarse rock slides under dwarf evergreens—and greatly to my disappointment, I never saw them again. Another brood of five downy chicks was found by a member of our party on the crest of the mountain opposite, but in this case there was melting snow near at h
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals. Glacier National Park (Agency : U. S. ); Mammals; Birds. 144 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. was coming and my little family had apparently gone to shelter— possibly under a dense mat of evergreen or into a safe cavern under a ledge, for they are said to- roost along the edges of coarse rock slides under dwarf evergreens—and greatly to my disappointment, I never saw them again. Another brood of five downy chicks was found by a member of our party on the crest of the mountain opposite, but in this case there was melting snow near at hand. A brood of six larger young was found near the top of Piegan Pass in August, also in easy reach of water, and where there were bunches of red sorrel whoso seeds the 3'oung were eating. On Kootenai Pass still later the turkeylike kerp, hcrp, of a mother ptarmigan calling her brood was heard in. Photograph by E. J. Oameroo. Fig. 46.—Sharp-tailed grouse. passing. Near Blackfeet Glacier feathers were found, and at Gun- sight Pass a lineman reported seeing the birds where the open slopes afford abundant food. In winter the ptarmigan feed on willow buds and the evergreen leaves of the dryas, Mr. Stevenson tells me. He has found them with their snow white winter plumage complete the last of September, and in winter has seen them on the mountain tops, " each bird sitting in the snow lodged behind a rock on the bare, rocky, wind-swept bar- ; After hard storms, he saj's, thej' may also be found at the bases of the mountains, and one flock was discovered in the willoAvs above Sherburne Lake during a blizzard. But though a few may occasionally be driven below by stress of storm, the ptarmigan live on the mountain tops, where the mountain sheep and goats make their homes, and where they, too, are nourished by the hardj', dwarf, Arc- tic-Alpine flora. Having had little to fear from the hand of man, these gentle birds offer one of the most delightful of all experienc
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