Journal 27 June 1969 Cañon del Nido, Sierra del Nido, Chih. MEXICO penion Operation. Pair Nardequin Quail among rocks, shot green, small only 50' from dry streambed. Saw Mexican Jay, Bartailed Pigeon, Canyon Wren. 10+ Violet-green Swallow milled about at mouth of a large rock cave, as if feeding Spotted Towhee. A Red-tailed Hawk perched on a cliff; a Mexican Jay perched above, down bow on bowl, perched again, & repeated 4- x. at each dive, Red-tail opened bill upward & gave preen. Saw a Painted Redstart foraging in Cypress brusher. Often saw an Ash-throated Flycatcher. Many birds called hard (by Eile) in area fresh "yucca" flowers (purple + yellow), and a hummingbird (bird? ) fed there. 1o Spotted Owl flew down canyon pursued by 8+ Mexican Jays, closest well behind it. And then perched in cleft of cliff. Burrotole (5+) and Cichochades (2) in cypress & pine in canyon bottom. In bottom, mostly silvery-leafed oak, but also mesquite, Limber (? - 2"cone, 3"needle) pine. Cypress on to about 7500'. Often saw or heard a Canyon Wren, + we caught a juvenile fledgling. In daylight, a Poor-will called in canyon. No juniper & Stellar Jays; perhaps too dry. |1010, we entered mouth of highest rocky canyon, leading SW. Canyon Wren on sappy oak trunk and adjacent boulders. Douglas Fir to 2' diameter. Spotted Towhee. a sappy canyon, when I saw bear sign last summer + fall. | A Sharp- shinned Hawk carried prey in claws, over canyon, high. Lines of Sapsucker holes in ash trunks. | Saw many fresh cores of corer, mostly under yellow pine, some under Doug. Fir. Saw pair of Hepatic Tanager in silvery-leafed oak in canyon bottom. | Yellow pine is about 20" diam., 100' tall. Some core cores of green cores; some obviously dismantled on ground, leaving pile of scales. None of the Gambel Oak (deciduous) seen. | In sappy upper