Remsen, J.V. 1976 Journal May 18 Comments: the low density of resident birds in Live Oak and Keystone Canyons is striking. Despite excellent heterogeneity with dense oak thickets, rocky outcrops, and pinyon-juniper in varying heights and densities plus water at at least 3 springs, birds are scarce - except for migrants, which particularly favor oaks and Garrey. There is an unmapped mine shaft in upper Live Oak Canyon which must provide permanent water at its mouth, and seepage below the shaft in gully forms several pools where the gully passes over rocks - many birds were coming to drink and bath there. (Cont) canyon XX-main mine shaft N cabin road Quercus forest rock cliffs mine tunnel XX pools trail May 19 E. Mojave: Area: Fort Piute (OS45-1545); Kelso (very few birds); Cedar Canyon Time: 0545 - 2000 wind: 0-20 SW sky: clear Temp: 60-90 Species: Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Gambell's Quail Chukar White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Burrowing Owl Com. Poorwill White-throated Swift Costa's Hummingbird Ladder-backed Woodpecker Western Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Sayls Phoebe Hammond's Flycatcher Dusky Flycatcher Western Flycatcher W. Wood Pewee Olive-sided Flycatcher Horned Lark Rough-winged Swallow Com. Raven 2 1 1 11 1 2 250 21 2 2 13 3 4 3 2 1 1 2 5 1 1 5 1 3 Verdin (first fledglings) Rock Wren ('' Swainson's Thrush Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Cedar Waxwing Phainopepla Com. Starling Solitary Vireo Warbling Vireo Nashville Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Yellow Warbler Audubon's Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Ovenbird Wilson's Warbler Com. Yellowthroat American Redstart House Sparrow (1st Fr. Piute) Yellow-headed Blackbird Scott's Oriole Hooded Oriole (N/c) 9 11 1 11 15 10 6 5 1 17 11 1 1 3 18 1 27 2 18 20 1 1 7