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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 30
Clearing. Chill
At Clear Lake
western meadowlark
black tern
killdeer
wn vesper sperrow
turkey vulture
dove
Forster's tern
yellow-headed blackbird
field sparrow
barn swallow
red-winged blackbird
blue-winged teal
pied-billed grebe
Sennett 's nighthawk
black-crowned night heron
prairie chicken
pintail
spotted sandpiper
pectoral sandpiper
4m. bittern
the lake; 8 inches deep,
At Willow Lake
black tern ‘
yellow-headed blackbird
Sennett 's nighthawk
prairie horned lark
lark bunting
blue-winged teal
red-winged blackbird
Forster's tern
coot
killdeer
wn meadowlark
barn sWallow
pied-billed
north wind,
our first fairly extended trip.
-20 spp.
Found and excavated another lycosid tunnel
which is near water
pa 1 .
grebe 1° SPp
not strong, most of the day. We enjoyed
Clear Lake, circular and small, is one of
the most alkaline of the lakes in this Cherry
county groupe This is remarkable. since only
a mile to the west, lies Hackberry Lake, with
fresher water than any other.
Had my first, and therefore most impressive,
opportunity to sense oe depth of invective
expressed by Forster's terns in welcoming
visitors; never a syllable except downright
profanity. They are lovely and graceful birds -
but, such language.
Found n/4 of the killdeer, deserted for some
reason beyond knowledge. Dr. Wolcott took the
set, which proved to be unincubated,.
nest of the western vesper sparrow. with
very young birds, on a vegetated sand slope
50 feet above the lake level.
Barn swallows are beginning to build about
deserted shacks, which are too common in this
country cruel to agricultural effort; each is
emblem of human despair.
in sand near the shore of
level.
an
A nest of the pied-billed grebe, with 7 eggs
nearly hatched.
Here Forster's terns again put on a show,
affording me several cuss-words not before
noted.
Across to Trout Lake
‘rasshopper sparrow Nest of wn meadowlark;
wn meadowlark 5 half-fledged young.
-« SPPe Another lycosid tunnel,
200 feet above water, 9 inches deep.
