S.O. Lemley 1952 Journal 38 Aug 30 Sandia Pueblo, 6 mi's Bernalillo, Sandoval to New Mexico a plenty so we should make out all right. Ward shot a screech owl a little while ago. Bounan has done yeoman service in setting out all the traps. Reports of Pipostomys are numerous so we should get something. I hope things pick up shortly. This camp is in the midst of a large grove of cotton woods along an irrigation ditch. The Santa Fe main line runs uncomfortably close, but at least they don't blow the whistle here. Aug 31 Dr. Russell took off on schedule this morning. Both traps yielded only 1 Lepus and 1 Onychomys. Bob went out to shoot varblers and I went out to set steel traps for ground squirrels. I caught none. There were hundreds of Cnemidophorus running around all over the ground. They are impossible to catch, and if shot with a .22 aux, they disintegrate. I returned to camp to find Bounan lance deep in varblers. This cotton-wood grove is an ideal place for them. Apparently this strip of cotton-woods along the Rio Grande constitutes these the principal, indeed the only good, migration route for Rocky Mountain birds headed south. I went out myself and shot 3 in the space of an hour. 2 Pileated and 1 Virginian's. I saw a Hairy Woodpecker but missed a shot, about 30 feet up at the top of a cotton-wood. Dr. orders arrived about 2 in the afternoon to tell us that we have been had!