J O. Sondley 1952 Journal 34 Aug 27 Jemez Creek, 6mi NW Bland, 8500 ft, Sandovl Co New Mexico to be no lodge properly speaking and yet I can hardly figure than cutting a den in the canyon walls which are solid granite. I saw and shot at, at least 2 more pileated woodpeckers on the way up. I shot a chipmunk. There are either gradunculus or cinerosus I don't know which. I notice that the white face masks are very white and that there is a blackish patch in front of the ear. I shot a chukar from about 20 feet up in a Douglas Fir. A & G also collected a house wren from the brush along the canyon side. A hawk, possibly a Cooper Hawk. flew down the canyon past me. I saw a baby Peromyscus maniculatus scuttling through the grass near the creek edge. What on earth he was doing out by himself I don't know. I picked him up. he was about 1" long, head and body, with possibly another inch of tail. I released him and he hopped out of my hand to the ground, about a foot and scuttled into the grass. [illegible] I missed a garter snake which sculled into crevise before I could touch him. He had been running on a rock. I set 25 mouse traps in the grass near camp for Marten which Brown took last night, but I caught nothing during the day although there were spring traps. I left them out tonight and hope to do better. I should mention that the