Auguster 1947 Journal 15 Aug 28 Camnatti Creeks, 1450', San Luis Obispo Co., California for poorwills & Search Quails but didn't hear any. Shined a woodrat in a valley oak & heard a young horned owl. Scared many Larks Sparrows out of their nesting trees. Aug 29 As usual the Killer Bees woke me up at 4:50 am. in time to get breakfast. They function very efficiently as an alarm clock. Second call comes regularly at 5 when the Calif. Woodpeckers sound off. Went to reservoir to look over caves on hillside East & a little south of reservoir. There are a series of several caves in a marine limestone deposit overlaying a fine soft sandstone. The limestone abounds in fossils - especially pecten and a massive oyster also found pieces of a small echinoderm about halfway between a sea urchin & a sand dollars. 50 to 100 feet below is another pecten belt. These shells being considerably larger & heavier. The caves above yielded no bats as they are probably too small; but in one were the droppings of a large bat which probably came in during the night after feeding. Each cave, almost, has a woodrat nest in the back & there are nests under the nearby Junipers. Threw back to camp & collected licks there & cleaned. About 2:30 went back to reservoir & set 7 woodrat traps in the caves. Had a swim. Saw 5 ravens playing around in pairs (4 of them at least) on an up draft. Came back to camp & changed 1 gopher sets. After supper returned to reservoir & set 22 more mus. sp. traps at 3 pace intervals in a sodless outcrop near (to the south of) the reservoir.