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laJce - Clear Laice* 
Dull frogs are very abundant at both Stixiklng Lake and Horse Lake; vater 
dogs also In all the lakBS* a great food for the heronsa 
Tnose birds that nest out of the water at Stinking Lako have little 
ohanoe of hatching their young. From the groat number of nests that 1 find 
that have been destroyed* 1 conclude that few hatch their young out of water* 
along the shores in broad daylight. They* I believe* are the nrast serious 
enen^ to nests* Badgers are oomaon and they too are bad after eggs* Coyotes 
are abundant here and their tracks evezy place in the mad and through the 
grass indicate that water is not all they seek* Fox tracks are also oonmion 
ynd a duck hawk? occasionally swoops down for a bird* There are some very 
small snakes, but 1 believe these do no harm* as they feed upon the frogs* as 
bull frogs are rather oosiBon* Abundant in places often fifty yards from shore 
in the short grass* 
i had located a duck nest containing five well incubated eggs 100 feet 
up on the mountain side, oast side of lake- 1 went back two days later to get 
the mother duck* which was rather tame* and to get photo of nest and eggs* A 
skunk* 1 presume it was* had Just beat me* and eaten the eggs* and scratched 
the nest to pieces* 1 had decided this was a redhead's nest* The nest was in 
thick shin oak brush* made of leaves, with breast feathers among then* 1 find 
mny nests out in the sage brush that have likewise been destroyed* The alani— 
ing part is the valuable birds suffer most* 
Aug* 21* The ducks here have got me pretty well balled up by their con** 
VATEUFQtfL EREUIKS* 
Rirswira are very abundant all around the lake* prowling in the grass 
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DUCKS* 
