8.0. Sunday 1952 Journal 29 Aug 24 3mi S W. Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico Picked up the trap . 3 Peromyscus. 1 of them looks a little off so I put it up. Tail doesn't look like treel but it doesn't look like mammalatus either. Boylei? I hreeled East along the road, and then took off to the North. I collected a Flicker from the top of a pine tree about 50 feet up. I shot at a Hairy Woodpecker which flew suddenly into gun range in front of me but I missed. This woodpecker was wasting over the pines trees working from the base up, spiraling around the trunk, and flying to the base of another tree as soon as it finished the first. I have now reached an East-Mont Ridge which runs back of camp somewhere. A Clark's Nutcracker flew over along it about 100 yds away. I shot a flapping bird in an oak thicket on the north side of the ridge. I have no idea what it is, either a grosbeak or a tomtec. I put it up though. A large flock of Spiny Nuthatches with a couple of Chickadees (mountain) mixed in passed by near in the oak thickets and pines on the north slope. I wander flew into a tree near me and out of it again fast. That is the way they are acting here now, tearing around the country-side like nobody's business. The ground cover over here is much thicker. A nuthatch flew to within about 6 feet of me, at about eye-level on a dead oak limb. I sawa Wardling Vireo in oaks at edge of an open patch. Vireos seem more partial to open than ols