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O. Landry
1952
Catalogue
12
Aug 14
11/2 mi NE Chama, 10,000ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico
Checked the traps. Absolutely nothing. One tray sprung
with mouse hair on the wire. I saw a pine gross-beak
in camp close behind the cook-stove. It was a P or
young. I took off up the slope of the big hill to the east.
marked "High Peak" on the map. The morning was overcast
and damp. I saw a weaver in the base of a young spruce
tree. From since W.C.R. reported Rock Weavers, I
guess this one was the same. The aspens on the slope
were full of chickadees as usual. I found a collection
of Elevevent, which I think must be deer and not
sheep since it was high on the slope in the woods in a
situation which I do not think sheep would get into.
The top of the peak was pretty quiet today. I saw neither
chipmunks nor ground squirrels in the rocks on the
east
west slope today. In a little open grove
about 1/2 mi the middle of the field beyond the rocks
I saw june, 2 red-breasted nut-hatches, 3 ringlets
and a chipmunk. I could not manoever for a shot
at the nut-hatches before they were gone. I panned
cross the field to a good size spruce-fir grove,
putting a 1/2 load in my shot gun. Naturally, it jammed
in the chamber as they always do. Today, I did not
have my screw-driver-pocket knife, so I tried to
get it out by forcing the ejector by breaking
the gun hard. This resulted in breaking one of the
lugs that holds the thing together, so now it
is kinda wobbly. On top of that, the stock