Brewer's Blackbirds in the Sierra Nevada, California
Journal
Condor
Volume
61
Issue
1 (January-February)
Year
1959
Pages
60
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
Brewer’s Blackbirds in the Sierra Nevada, California.---- September 13, 1958, I observed a flock of 78 Brewer’s Blackbirds (Ez#zagus cyanoce#&alus) at an elevation of 11,520 feet above Lake Italy in the High Sierra Wilderness Area of the Sierra National Forest, Fresno County, California. This was about 800 feet above timberline. We had had stormy weather the previous week, but that day was comparatively warm and clear. The birds were assumed to be feeding on grasshoppers, as an abundance of the latter had been noted. They came upon us from the direction of Lake Italy and moved on up the basin, which is quite wide and open here, toward “Gabbott Pass” (elevation 12,240 feet) .-PHYLLIS LINDLEY, Berkeley, California, October I, 1958
