Red Storm 1944 Journal #9 Aug 6. I was SE San Benito Peak, 4400', San Benito Co., Calif. After this we took our guns and started downstream & worked the north slopes of Santa Rita Peak to about 4800'. This is principally a heavy growth of scrub oak with a few small scattered pines and some Manzanitas. I also noted a little poison oak and adenostoma (both rare). The two most abundant birds were Gnatcatchers and Western Bluebirds. I also saw or heard several Spotted Towhees, Wm. Flycatcher, Orange-crowned & Heather & California Jay Black-throated Gray Warblers, Chipmunks were to be seen or heard all over this area and I saw one or two woodnut nests in the dense chaparral. Returned about 4:30 skinned, ate, and went for a walk N along the road fox after dark. Heard one great horned owl hoot enthusiastically. Retired about 9:30 PM. Aug 7. Got up at 5:45 & after breakfast started north along the road & then turned west (after about half a mile) & went up to the top of the ridge following the line between some burned over country & unburned & followed the ridge North to the summit of San Benito Peak. Saw a large Cooper Hawk on the way up to the top of the ridge there was a flock of 25 or 30 Juncos near the road. The ridge is covered with a low growth (3-5 feet) of scrub oaks with a few scattered pines, an occasional Bluebird or Gnatcatcher were about the only birds around. Toward the summit there were several good-sized rock outcroppings which