S.O. Sunday 1952 42 Journal Sept 4 b mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico I know whether this means they have moved in to this area after the cutting or whether they were living in the trees and have stayed on after the cutting. The trees are on the ground, cut into 10 foot lengths ready for hacking. The tree here seem to be preponderantly Douglas Fir with some spruce and strew fir, and, a little lower down, a few yellow pines. Doug Fir is called a transient zone species and I suppose that what this even should be. I don't believe it, though. Bailey hardly mention Doug fir, and I suspect it is a successional stage which comes in after yellow pines has been cut out. I collected a Three Toed Woodpecker about 10 feet up on a dead spruce snag. A F'm poor plumage. I came back to camp for lunch, put up the Woodpecker and set out again. Shot a Chickadee this time, a & with well developed teats. Not lactating though... The chickadees are extremely tame. You can easily get 'em with a 38. Also collected a Lilacated Warbler near the stream. Pearson made a number of gopher sets and got several. We at first mistook the Microtus corycanthus for Clethionomys, there was even a reddish cast to the beak, but cutting away the maxeter revealed rootless teeth so that settled that... We did some bat shooting here in the valley at sundown. Pearson got 3, The rest of us 0. I set out 45 mm cam specials in a