They frequently misoff told twigs of pencil size. A dozen nests dug up has all been made of grass piece cut to about 3". I'm actually found only one tunnel bore [illegible] cut twigs of told. Afternoon very windy, evening calm. Oct.24. Temp. record begining Oct.23 following a minimum of 9°: 8:15 a.m. 42° 9:03 49° 10:30 57 clear, no wind. 11:00 61 wind begining about 12:00 11:50 61 12:50 61 - Windy, fluffy clouds to east 1:25 60 - Windy 2:15 60 " 3:00 56 " 3:45 54 " 4:30 51 " 5:15 47 " 5:40 43 " sunset 5:45 42 " 5:50 42 less wind 6:05 40 " " 6:30 36 no wind 7:10 34 flustery M.S.T sky overcast and to west clear throughout. Picked up grid traps at 6:30 a.m. & Solenamps in the same trap as the abrocoma day before yesterday. It had been set alongside the excavated grass nest lying in the ditch made by excavating 9:05 p.m. 30° around 11:40 18° clear 1:00 15° " 2:30 12° " 4:00 11° " 5:00 12° " 5:15 14° " 5:30 17° sunrise 6:00 18° 6:10 21° 6:50 30° 7:05 30° 7:20 32° 7:47 39° 8:00 44° 9:30 54° 10:55 60° 12:00 61° wind began about 11:30, breeze before then