Sept 14, Lagallen Creek 3 mi N.W. Hobart mills Nevada Co California. exists for skinning in the swarms of yellow jackets which now abound. They collect all over the carcass as fast as you set the skin off and are extremely nerve-wacking to deal with. I unfortunately lost my field glasses and so have been unable to check on the birds but juncos are plentiful and I heard 1 Hellan Jay. Also saw 1 flicker and several small warbler-vireo sized birds. Migration seems to be under way. I also found no robins in the meadows at all. They were quite common in June. Bloodel and I went out to shoot chipmunks of which there are many in evidence. We missed all we shot at however. Tried one chippy in a lodge-pole pine about 40 feet high and lost him in the foliage. We then forgot about him and started zeroing in the rifle. To my great surprise instead of being frightened by the report, the chipmunk came out on a limb and began chattering at us. I took another shot at it and it dropped several feet into another clump of branches. If I hit it at all it was not dead because we could here it chattering in the foliage although we could not see it. I hope we can bring back a cross-section of the mammal in this place as it would be desirable. We saw or deer a doe as we drove in along the road. Foot prints and excrement are plentiful.