LIDICKER. 1974 16 Dec, cont Just one seen on this trip so far. The road is untrammeled and paved. Eventually we descended into Valle San Rafael which is almost solid agricultural fields. It is surrounded by hills with cactus and desert scrub. It is not Lony Sooma vegetation. And the soil is quite sandy & the shrubs well spaced. Before this the juniper clumps gave way to rocky hills & different vegetation. Along this road, we also noted Red-tailed Hawk, Kestrel & Road-runner. We proceeded out from Valle San Rafael heading for Rancho Sanger de Cristo, type locality for Microtus californicus grinnelli and also a locality for Dielorus varians trindatensis. After several inquiries at a roadside we took the trip off to the N of the highway, we returned to the SE edge of the valley & found Rancho Sanger de Cristo nestled almost invisibly behind a spur of a hill. While standing in the Valle we came upon a road with a artificial pond, a how we saw: Cott-tot, Doves-3, Ducks (one & 2 tiny), Canvasback - 17, Bufflehead - 14 Pied bt Grebe, Killdeer, etc. Rancho Sanger de Cristo has some beautiful spring meadows along a stream, but they are heavily over-grazed. We walked in to the south lower & 2 mile area and we could come into range & close up. One short section of meadow was fenced & although stock had clearly been in it, the grass was much taller. We