The numerous dead hares on the road were swarming with yellow jackets (which have been rife only during the last couple of years). Going to be an interesting invasion. Maybe I'll end up not being able to complete it; a pair of horned owls in a tree between Bullitt's and Malone's pulled up pellets under their cottonwood and they didn't empty away (see 2 pages later for contents of pellets). Two FOR visitors going over the pass. Stopped at a ranch house north of Las Coloredas to see and ask the whereabouts of a frog pond on the mesa nearby. The owner was home and turned out to be Jorge Rambaut, who had helped Cresto with his job study here, and did a lot of mouse collecting (and more). Many of his specimens are in the museum in Buenos Aires. He said two-toes used to be abundant in the valley but they all died out about 1938. He described a short-tailed, diurnal, small mammal moth beautiful soft fur that makes a noise and can sometimes be caught by hand. Digs around into fields where they live or lurk. It was a huge flat, closely cropped, irrigated field, dry, covered with goose droppings and maybe 100 geese; a nice stone corral at the meadow's edge of it. It was across the stream. I waded away and set about 5 jumping frogs and 20 M's around the corral. Found