Waucoba News Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1979
Waucoba News Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1979
Waucoba News Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1979
Sponsored by The Bishop Museum & Historical Society, Bishop, Ca. 93514 VOLUME III ~ No. 1
Winter -- 1979
Founded and Edited by Enid A. Larson, Box 265, Big Pine, Ca. 93513 4 issues per year
WAUCOBA: il. Paiute word for "pine tree ll - also, highest peak in Inyo Mts., 11,027 ft.
WAUCOBA NEWS Subscription: Send 4 stamped, self-addressed envelopes, Box 265, Big Pine. Ca.
COYOTE RIDGE
(between BI shop
& Baker creeks )
Photo by EAL
Ze iss Con t j fI ex
Subalpine association
where ~ albjcaulis
is low-growing; from
Its mat either a white
bark or a lodgepole has
become the central tree
I
:lusty B1ackb~ird 1 s
American Coot 10 4 6~ r~er's Blackbird 40 8 lcf
Killdeer 14 9 1 ~!'~~k& s Finch !'i..A.. "f. - 3 1.
goldfinch, sp. 4 U.
Common Snipe 3 6 '3
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 34 't't Pine Grosbeak 3
' Red Crossbill 17
sandpiper, sp. 3
(~)J.ru,JJ- , \ Rufous-sided Towhee 9 'f
Ring-billed Gull 3a I Slate-colored Junco 5 2 8
gull, sp. 1 Z Oregon Junco 168 35 I ~'"
Long-eared Owl 3 .1
1
Belted Kingfisher
..........".
1 Ic:f·
Rea sfta~ed Flicker 29 2 .3
Red-breasted Sapsucker 1 L
Hairy Woodpecker 13 3 h
Downy Woodpecker 9 1 5
White-headed Woodpecker 2
a=adult; i=immature; cp=count period
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17 7g '1
"p v!'! Ie q 11 }I'f
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DEDECKER'S CLOVER
An additional population of Trifolium
Vincent Yoder, Lone Pine, Ca. reports gedeckerae was encountered this past summer.
sighting a Nuttall's Woodpecker (Dryobatu This one was located in a rocky north-facing
nuttallj) 20 January 1979, 1 mile east of chute at 8000 ft in the North Fork of Oak
Lone Pine, along Lone Pine Creek. This is Creek in the southern Sierra of Inyo County.
the 2nd reported location for this species Unlike the other populations reported in the