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S.O. Jarehy
1952
Journal
4
Aug 11
11½ mi NE Chama 10,000 ft. Rio Arriba Co., New Mexico, night.
Yesterday, in searching for our compass, we came upon a Goshawk perched in a tree about 50 feet from the road. Nobody had a gun out so, it went uncollected.
The animal life at this high level, is not especially plentiful. It was much richer a couple of thousand feet below than. We camped a couple weeks ago, near Los Brazos, just north of Tierra Amarilla. There we noticed numerous Cytellus lateralis, chipmunks, Gynomys (in the open fields beside the road.) We really should drop down and collect there. We did a little Herp. collecting down there, pulling in a couple of Amblystomas and a Buf. This high country is relatively slim pickings.
I shall add an Audubon Warbler #
the bird I collected.
Aug 12. Checked the traps this morning. It had rained very heavily during the night and several of them were sprung. 1 immature Peromyscus maniculatus out of 42 traps. We had gotten up fairly late and the sun was well up when I got out into the field. I went northward toward the New Mexico line, over a slight rise. Another larger stream than the one we are on flows north her, and presumably drains into the Brazos.