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