Carol Pearson 1969 Journal Papa León Tree 2 July I saw 1 or 2 burrowing owls + then the garrus came on thick, so I saw no more. In driving through irrigated parts we saw lots of mockingbirds, + over one dump we saw a turkey vulture. In town we see blue+white swallows, zonotrichia, and a gray gull (Larus modestus) 3 July 6:30-7:30 again up the valley at 8 km east N& Pearson fog usually too thick # close to see up the hills where some birds were calling. The route out croppings up the hill have great mounds of some bromeliad on them. Rest of morning spent at 5½ km NE San Bartolo, where we caught made in the traps on the rocky slope and moved the traps across the river & valley to the sandy hills. I set 40 #ge collapsible Shermans roughly 35' apart in the sandy Tillandsia but near to rocks of the top of the ridge in places. Oatmeal bait. Birds!: A pair of miners on the sandy Tillandsia hill. They caught my attention with twitters + calls notes as they flew over the ridge and down to the river gully. There they spent time around the mouth of a burrow under a rock sticking out of the river bank of the gully. One went in it once, + there might have been young bird noises. One sat at the mouth about a few minute or so. Otherwise they didn't seem to be doing anything definite except preening sometimes. When I went near the burrow they come near + continued their calling. They cock their tail & run on the ground. The mouth of the burrow was not distinctive, didn't