stood high above other vegetation, it was noted that an average
growth of six feet had been reached; one specimen measured seven
feet nine inches. Here also were tall blue larkspur Delphinium
scopulorum and, in the moist thickets, jewel weed Impatiens noli-
tangere This jungle of vegetation and the adjacent tall willows
was occupied by a large population of land birds as testified by
a census made on June 6 - June 8 within an area roughly 100 yards
by 600 yards, or about 12 acres. The census follows: Rufous
hummingbird, 5 pair; red-breasted sapsucker, 1 pair, kingbird, ak
pair; alder flycatcher, 3 pair; crow, 3 pair; black-capped chick-—
adee, 2 pair; olive-backed thrush, 2 pair; ruby~crowned kinglet,
1 pair; red-eyed vireo, 1 pair; warbling vireo, 1 pair; Audubon
warbler, 2 pair; water thrush, 1 pair, Macgillivray warbler, 1
pair; yellow-throat, 2 pair; redstart, 6 pair; song Sparrow, 10
pair. Excluding the crows. 3 pair of red-winged blackbirds that
were nesting in the adjacent cattails, and 5 cedar waxwings seen
there on June 7, this works out to a per acre population of 3.8
pairs.

Bouchie Creek reaches the edge of this flat through a narrow
valley, descending 300 feet in the last three-quarters of a mile.
The stream cuts through the flat, widening to a maximum of six
feet, and flows over a gravel bottom between low cut banks and
under tall alders. Here also undergrowth is heavy and ferns reach
a height of five feet

Along the shore in front of the willow thickets are two mar-
shes each about 200 yards long and 20 to 50 yards wide. These are
of similar character, wiz.; inshore a boggy strip 20 to 30 feet
wide covered by sedges including Carex aquatilis and C rostrata,
bur-reed Sparganium multipidunculatum, whitetop Fluminea festucacea,
and Scirpus microcarpus (In late summer the inner edge of the
marsh was bright with bur marigold Bidena cernua.) This open,
boggy ground is succeeded by a strip of varying width in which cat-—
tail, Typha latifolia, is the dominant growth, and this in turn is
succeeded by an open marsh of round-stem bulrush Scirpus acutus.
Finally along the outer edge, a belt of pond lilies pattern the
surface for a width of 50 feet or more. Between these two marshes,
for a distance of approximately a quarter of a mile, are several
areas where round-stem bulrush is the sole emergent growth, and
stretches of open water over a hard sand and gravel bottom extend
to a narrow beach along the foot of a low bank.

The outlet is at the southeast corner of the lake and from
there, for a mile or so, Bouchie Creek winds through meadow land
of a type less open that that described above. Along the lake at
this point is a narrow marsh of round-stem bulrush. There are no
c@ttails there

The lake contains extensive charophyte meadows and an abun-
dant aquatic flora, including water smartweed Polygonum natans,