Paul DeBenedictis 1961 June 24 Donner Lake, 6000 ft., Placer Co., Calif. Medon all about. Commonest birds junco's & robins Tony got 2 Thamnophis elegans buoler boards in a wet field, and later I got one crawling in the grass. Saw a flycatcher. Butterflies disappeared about 4. lots of Blackbirds by the lake here. Saw some "white"breasted robins in the pines & a pop. and a pair of western tanager's, nesting, Also a ground squirrel near a wood pile, and a sea gull by Donner Lake set out 11 traps by the cabin, mostly in back heavily over grown area. Saw more juncoes and sparrows. Saw 2 flycatchers by the house and one mt. chickadee in a small oak in front of the house about 6:30. Trap line as follows: 1) at a rock pile under a small fir tree, 2) in a stone wall, 3) in rocks under willows, 4-6 in lilac, manzanita, small pine, small firs, many rocks 7) trash pile behind tool shed, 8) in rock crevice exposed grassy area, 9-10-11) thick poplar thicket, quite damp, all in root tangles. Later in the evening saw several Vaux swifts over Donner Lake, and a Western tanager feeding (and calling constantly) in some alders. Saw blackbirds & robins. Every one else in the family went fishing, betwee one got anything. Still light at 8:30, getting wippy. June 25 Got up about 2, checked the traps. Nothing. Ants taking the bait. Walked west along dirt