Davis 1948 Red's Meadow, 7500 ft. Sierra Nev'd. for. Maderato, Calif. July 10, 1948. High over a clearing in the forest. Noted a pair of red-breasted sapsuckers about 120 ft up at the very top of a fir. They made short sallies from their perch, turning in mid-air & returning to the tree as if they were catching insects on the wing. Pygmy owl calls squeaks brought the usual red-breasted nuthatches, Audubon warblers, Western tanagers, kinglets, chickadees, and a pygmy nuthatch. Olive-sided flycatcher heard calling near a small stream. In p.m. while in camp; heard ruby-crowned kinglet calling loudly, soon joined by juncos, and Audubon Warblers. Thought weasel might be in camp. After a few minutes, a fisherman visiting me spotted a weasel creeping thru the alders across the stream back of our tent. I shot the weasel, a 9. About 1/2 hour later, while skinning, heard the bride calling again. Told Betty to see if a weasel was around camp; she saw one puffing about the exact spot where I had droffed the 9. I shot, but missed, the weasel left the alders & dashed downstream along the open streambank, its tail erect and almost at right angles to main of its body. It disappeared in some brush & grass.