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Title
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Omaha, Lincoln, and Nebraska Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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June 29 - continued A nest of Traill's flycatcher found, contained one lubberly young cowbird; no sign of eggs or young flycatchers. I rebelled as usual, but could not bring myself to the point of performing the reasonable and defensible execution. Why Mother Nature should have wished the scourge of cowbirds upon innocent and friendly birds is beyond comprehension. We found the following nests: yellow warbler 4 eggs orchard oriole 12 eggs or young Baltimore oriole 1 not examined catbird 3 1 with young, 2 with eggs dickcissel 1 eggs brown thrasher 1 3 young mourning dove 3 eggs or young kingbird 3 2 not examined; 1 with 3 young, dead Traill's flycatcher 2 1 with eggs; 1 with 1 young cowbird robin 2 not examined; prob. post-nid. yellow-billed cuckoo 1 building red-winged blackbird - colony, perhaps 20; not examined We found a nest with 4 young orchard orioles, dead; a nest of the kingbird with 3 young, dead; a nest of the mourning dove with one young bird dead and one pipped live egg. At first inclined to believe that destruction of the parent birds might have been the explanation, we concluded that prolonged cold weather was to blame. June 30 Omaha Took several photographs of our young bluejay. His vocal performances are becoming mature, and he is by way of being a big bird. As yet he is perfectly at peace with the other birds.
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Rights
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Salt Basin Habitat Notes