DA Good Journal Reddell Deer Creek, 2300 ft., 3½ mi. S., 5 mi. W. Crockett Pk. Lake Co., Calif. 18 May and I was pretty much out of the picture for the rest of the evening. Ned + Susan seemed to be having a great time drinking wine + talking. Got to bed ca. 12:00. Weather today - clear, hot, little wind. Birds for 18 May, Deer Creek 19 May Up ca. 6:00, feeling much better. Others got up soon afterward. We had some breakfast and then went out collecting again ca. 7:00. I just spent some time walking around in the chaparral where I got 1 Bell Sparrow and 1 Wrentit. I then went down along the creek + got 2 Western Flycatchers. I had an opportunity to shoot a Solitary V. but I wasn't sure Ned didn't want to record it. As it turned out, the microphone had broken. I returned to the camper ca. 10:30. where I took tissues from the birds I had shot I prepared them for skeletons. Susan returned at about the same time + Ned a while afterward. Each had some birds to prepare. When we had finished (I finished first + spent a little more time looking for W. Flycatchers but finding none), we had lunch (ca. 13:00) + then drove further north on [illegible] N04 to Lower Nye Campground, 3300 ft., 1 mi. N + 2½ mi. W. Crockett Pk., Lake Co., Calif. while we reached ca. 14:00. We then split up