Sept 5 6 mi E Truchas, 10,000 ft, Rio Arribalo, New Mexico Country difficult to walk in. I scared up a deer in this and it went thundering off through the woods. Many of the small aspens show signs of browsing, so that deer are fairly plentiful. I went back down to camp. The way I came up, shooting a chipmunk and a chickaree near the rail fence. I spreaded out 2 house-wrens. They seem quite plentiful in this timber. I collected a piece from the alders near the stream in camp. Ran my trap line again. 2 chipmunks and a Chickaree were in it. At 3:15 pm gave only 1 chipmunk but 4 sprouts traps. I suspect the chickarees were raiding them. The chickaree was killed dead. You would not think a museum special could kill a star chickaree. I left the traps out in the same location tonight. This evening's bat shoot was a complete blank. No hits. Sept 7 Looked at traps, 1 immature Peromyscus maniculatus. I decided to do most of my hunting near the stream Warblers were plentiful but traveling fast and for the most part high. I got 2 pileolated warblers and 1 ruby crowned kinglet also a house wren. These were all killed in the aspens or alders along the creek bank. When I got back to camp, I took off after several birds. I got a golden crowned kinglet in terrible plumage about 30 feet up in a spruce. I fired several shots at a Stellar's jay without