Patilka 1948 Aug.30 Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz I. the side draws of the latter slope. One of these I followed for a half-mile or so. It was a cut through large chunks of solid rock, and the stream bed consisted of a series of bowls varying size and depth succeeding each other more or less step fashion: I was stopped by a narrow part of the canyon where there was a deep pool at the base, a 6 foot drop. Water was present in most of the bowls, and it moved from one to another in a slackerish? The morning was hot at 10 or so, and thorn finches, lories, green-backed goldfinches, and other birds were coming to this water. Bewick wrens and reed-bunting-crows were the most common birds on the neighboring slopes. Aug.31 Spent the morning watching Jays and collecting along the watered part of the main canyon, below the main ranch house. Collected one California (Woodpecker, saw & heard two others. They are wary, and with the ground and little so dry, or the part, it is difficult to stalk them, and most other things for that matter. Ravens present in numbers up to 20 around a pig killed last Saturday; today it was about 1/4 devoured. Saw an adult Bald eagle in the canyon this morning. An adult Hutton Vireo montet (two old tail feathers, others stubby) was seen feeding a fully grown fledgling.