K Dixon 1951 Journal March 7. En route from Cuero, DeWitt Co., Texas I left Cuero about 7:30 am driving through Yoakum to La Grange. The sky was overcast. The trees were largely deciduous oaks. At LaGrange Encountered pines in a mixed growth with the oaks and they soon played out. I drove to Giddings and S mi x of there turned off U.S. 77 on to Texas Hwy 21, reaching Bryan at 10:45 am. I drove on to College Station. Then I looked an old friend, Mr. Donald Eidemiller, Assistant Prof. of Geography. He had invited me to stay in his home as a guest. 1 mi E College Station In the late afternoon I noted a large flock of Purple Grackles in a residence area generously dotted with post oak and Blackjack Oak. In some scrubby oaks I saw Field Sparrows and Vesper Sparrows, Mocking- bird and Blue Jay. March 8. I worked an area of post oak woodland with some blackjack scattered through and two underbrush layers, the Toller (hawthorn) coming out in leaf. Ground was leaf-return underneath or closely grass-covered in glades. Woods had been cut over. I flushed several cottontails in the wooded areas. Birds: ? Black-billed Cuckoo call? Robin (1 overhead) Crow Cardinal Blue Jay Field Sparrow Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Carolina Wren elsewhere Carolina Chickadee Eastern Meadowlark in Tufted Titmouse open fields