8.0. January 1952 2, Journal Aug 11 11 1/2 mi NE Chama 10,000 ft. Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico. Do not seem to have oversized. It has rained intermittently but not very hard ever since we got here. This morning I started out up the hill from camp to the west. This from a ridge about 200 feet high, rotate separates the [illegible] which run north south [illegible]. The most common birds to be seen were juncos and chickadees. I collected 3 of the latter and 2 juncos. They are all moulting. The juncos seemed to be predominately young ones. I was unable to get a shot at an adult, at all. Ruby crowned kinglets are fairly common. I collected 2 of those. Also. 1 red-breasted nut-hatch. I heard two more of these. Stellers jays are in the space, as also are Canada jays. I took a couple of shots at both of them but without result. Red Shafted Flickers are very much in evidence. Numerous wood- picker next holes are to be found in the dead spruce snags. Presumably these are flickers, since they are very large. I noticed 1 smaller wood-pickers which I could not identify certainly, but which was apparently a Hairy woodpecker. The hillside are, in places, literally ridaled with gopher holes. We have