Journal. May 22 Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino, California with few Bishop pines and low weeds. — very windy & damp. Saw 4 meadow larks. One was feeding young. We saw it carrying food to its young. It would circle around & alight, fly away again and alight way off in another direction. It was evidently trying to distract our attention. Two California Woodpeckers seen pecking an older & oak or ash tree, but in low area near entrance to the gulch. Other birds observed were Allen Hummingbird, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Bushtit, Greylag, Vaux Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Pileated Warbler, Band-tailed Pigeons, vultures, crows. May 24. Jean Boulware and I set 25 traps west of camp in meadows and riparian habitat beside wood and bordering the creek. This is the same place in which traps were set May 16. Caught 4 Promyces maniculatus, 3 Borex pacificus, 2 Zapus praxine — caught in meadow—in runway, 2 small Borex (sp?) — possibly S. rogans. May 25 Jean Boulware & I hiked up hill to south of ranger's house, up to meadow. Hill covered with mixture of Douglas fir, grand fir, alder,