DA. Good 1979 Journal Berkeley to Shaver Lake, Fresno Co., Calif. 4 October Left M V Z for Shaver Lake about 1530 with Bob Zink and Susan Kaiser. Saw the usual roadside birds including several Buteo jamaienis and 2 Elanus leucurus in the Central Valley. Saw 2-3 Tyto alba dead on road. Arrived Shaver Lake about 2100. ½ mi. S, 2½ mi. W Bald Mtn. 5400 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. [T.8S, R.25E, §47 Sec. 4] 5 October Up at c.0630. Bob Zink introduced Susan and me to shooting birds today (I had never even fired a shotgun before). The first bird I shot at was a Passerella iliaca - the species Bob is working on - and I hit it. Before long I was reasonably proficient at it and spent most of the day on my own while Bob helped Susan who were having a little more difficulty getting used to [illegible] the gun. In the AM there was a lot of activity with good sized flocks of Zonotrichia leucophrys, 2. atricapilla, some Spizella passerina, Dendroica coronata (Audubon's), some Parus gambeli, Sitta canadensis + S. carolinensis. Weather was beautiful, clear, warm. Habitat mixed chaparral + pine forest. We hunted mostly in the [illegible] chaparral. 6 October Same locality. We hunted for Passerella iliaca most of the morning in the same chaparral areas as yesterday. Again there was considerable activity + flocking w/ Hesperiphona vespertina, Carpodacus cassini and Bombycilla cedrorum as well as most of the spp. from yesterday. As we were finding few Passerella, Bob decided to move camp. We had a lot of trouble at this camp with yellow-jackets which swarmed all over our shooting operations. Bob managed to get stung a couple [illegible] times.