a nocturnal bird she has been tracking - I set out 30 snap traps in the arroyo: 20 + 3 in the arroyo, 6 in medium-size Tule-bedsia, one under the car. We fitched the tent for the night. The 3 large snap traps were set and a collection of very odd droppings. I had found similar ones this morning in the arroyo further west of tonight's camp. They look a lot like fruit : corvatin sideneus this afternoon I found them scattered over an area of about 2 ft. Many of them have a spot of dried liquid by then on the tan earth. No bird white wash around, maybe 25 pellets in all(?). Another item of interest was the deep hole that the army hop had dug in the quarriedo. It was about 1 1/2 yards in diameter, and the bottom was really out of sight. Ray + Myrnel went back to investigate and flaked a bit / Ray estimated it to be about 50 feet deep. No trip or anything to warn you about it. Excavated a burrow in the side of a sandy hill - it was a straight +/- 16" tunnel with bird droppings and a feather in it. After dark (+- 6:30) we went out looking for geckos. I set out a line of 21 Sherman's more or less in a straight line across the empty