80. Tandy 1952 Journal 24 Aug 21 3 mi sw Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arribaco, New Mexico. in half. Noted humming birds in here. Couldn't determine species. Put out 50 museum special in the scrub oak & cypress to the south of camp. Thunderstorm came up on all sides of us, so we decided to go to Tres Piedras and get off this mud. A terrific downpour came on, lightning was hitting all over the San Juan + Sangre de Cristos. We spent the night in the barn of the ranger station at Tres Piedras. Hail as well as rain. Aug 22. We returned to camp. Picked up traps. About half were sprung. 3 Peromyscus maniculatus 1 still alive. I took out to the north today along "Camp Ridge" Bines + aspens give way to an open field, pretty extensive. I saw a flock of half dozen Buthatchers (---Pygmy), of which I collected one. The open field contain 2 houses. Scrub-oak, myrtle about 6 ft high and young pines are both in evidence here. The drainage is to the west. A flock of Bluebirds 2 flew to xand mi 10 feet & me but I got no shot. Also Gray headed Junos and a Red Shafted Flicker. I collected a Pine Siskin from a pine about 3 feet tall in the middle of an open field. I heard a chickadee, as well as numerous juncos, bluebirds, and brown- headed nuthatch. I kicked out 3 Band-Tailed Pigeons from the ground beneath an oak thicket. They flew off to the south. Noticed a good deal