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Title
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Cherry County Bird List
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Date
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1903
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Creator
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Frank H. Shoemaker
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Description
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typewritten notes and lists
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Rights
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extracted text
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‘May 28
barn swallow
wn meadowlark
killdeer
red-headed woodpecker
kingbird
prairie horned lark
red-winged blackbird
black tern
white pelican (3)
Forster's tern
am. bittern
plue-winged teal
least bittern
yellowthroat
yellow-headed blackbird
Semett's nighthawk
lark bunting
coot
Wilson's phalarope
dove
gadwall
pied-billed grebe
red-breasted merganser
redhead
mallard 25
spp.
Cherry county, Nebraska
To Dewey Lake and back to Stilwell Ranch on Hackberry
Morning clear. Rain at 2pm. Windy later.
Nests of black tern in water 18 to 24 inches
deep, 50 feet to 50 yards from shore; noted
ts 1/3 and 1/2 and ebout 12 nests completed or
Dh
sets
building. -
Photographed nests with eggs, of black tern
pied-billed grebe.
Young mallards.
A group of Wilson's phalaropes.
Nests observed:
Coot 1/2 1/3 2/5 2/9; one nest 5 deserted.
Black tern - cited above.
Pied-billed grebe 1/8 DATs
Yellow-headed blackbird - number of eggs
listed as observed: 3212243 2 4 3
24324400022 2 4 Sets of 4 are
probably complete.
Red-winged blackbird 3 2 and several build-
ing or just completed.
Had privilege of watching a coot on her nest
at close range.
Many dead turtles along shore. Caught one
live snapper with 12-inch shell; examined and
released it.
Saw one muskrat.
innumerable flies and bees observed about
and
flowers of Antennaria campestris.
Noted
several of the light-colored blue racers peculiar to this area.
Found a deed bullsnake with many beetles working on it.
Tv 4 ~~
i dug
out a small lycosid spider carrying @
cocoon. The tunnel,
straight down, wes 6 inches deep, only 2 inches above water level in the
sand.
May 29
Rain last night, and steadily all day; cold north wind.
In the afternoon we went to Dewey Lake, and returning spent some time
about the shores of Hackberry lake; collected plankton with Birge net at
various points, also flowers and cacti.
Franklin's gulls were seen at Dewey Lake.
Found n/5 of western meadowlark.
