36. Mar 30. Spring Creek, 6 1/2 mi. ENE Skidmore, Bee Co., Texas Although it was calm when I started, breeze came up about 8:30 from the S. By 9:15 it had shifted to SE and was up to 17 mph or so. It continued throughout the day and into the evening. I returned to the area I had been in from 9:00 - 10:40 this morning for a few minutes about 6:00. Birds were inactive as they had been in mid-morning. 3 White-tailed Deer along that branch of the creek. I watched for Rats and found that they left the vent on the windy (S) side of the house and that most waited until 7:12 - 7:16, sunset being about 6:49. I was unable to take any with my slingshot. Mar 31. Calm until 8:15 when wind came up from SE. Generally clear until 9:00 when clouds moved in from S, forming complete cloud cover. I worked along the eastern fork of the creek from 7:15 - 9:30; see Parras acc #. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred there. I left for Beeville at 10:45, returning to the cabin at 3:00. To the east of Beeville on a pasture fence I noticed an Eastern Bluebird. On the ranch near my cabin I saw a Loggerhead Shrike in mesquite dotted pasture and a Red-tailed Hawk with 2 flashmarks (buff) along sides of rump, red tail, dark collar on throat. I drove along the oil pipeline road to the river, reaching this area about 400 yards downstream from the bridge at 3:40. Clouds tending to break up, WIND STILL STRONG from S Birds generally inactive, Little Blue Heron along 1st tributary below bridge.