5. June 1985 journal 34. May 25 Arizona Trip, cont'd and drove on back roads entirely around the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, stopping after and playing tapes and putting out the decoys. The pines here (mainly Ponderosa) were bare, with no new cones -- old ones on the ground with a few still on the trees. No crossbills -- a few siskins around only. Because of this, I drove N on Hwy 89 to Bitter Springs, Ariz, then on Hwy 89a to Jacob Lake in the Kaibab Natl. Forest. The pines here were barren of cones -- but a few ponderosa pines had old cones, and a very few had new green cones. The various species of firs on the entire north rim of the Grand Canyon area were bare or had old dry cones only. I went into the Grand Canyon Natl Park to look around -- there were a few Douglas Firs on the top of the rim, but apparently nowhere else -- as these had some old (still with seeds?) cones. A few siskins were heard here, and there were mt bluebirds, mt. chickadees, yellow- warbler warblers, rare chipping sparrows,